"Salutations" Prologue
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garde723[OOC: This is pure headcanon, though there is nothing in canon to contradict it.]
Izana sat eating a late dinner and trying not to think of Nagate. Food always made them think of their missing friend, given he was the only person aboard Sidonia who needed to eat more than once a week. A wistful smile pulled at their lips at remembering the sounds his stomach often made but it quickly fell.
He wasn't just missing, he was gone. Sidonia would not turn back for him and everyday he was left farther behind. Just another life lost to the tragedies of the gauna attack.
Sighing, Izana took a bit of tsukemono (pickled vegetables) and looked about the house they shared with their Grandmother. They hadn't seen their grandmother in nearly a week now, not since before the attack. Izana knew she was okay though--a quick call the day after the attack had confirmed that--she'd just been busy with the reconstruction and other command staff duties. Like processing the dead.
A tear threatened. Izana knew they should be strong, many had lost more than her, but that did nothing to comfort them. So much death. It was all so overwhelming.
But there was still one life out there. One death that hadn't happened yet. One "death" that could be reversed. Sidonia couldn't turn around. It was not agile. It could not alter its inertia without more devastation to the internal structures or without the risk of slowing enough to allow any other gauna to catch them, but garde units were agile. They could fly back.
Izana froze, their chopsticks before their lips, shocked at the thought.
A garde unit could fly back to Nagate's last know position and return to Sidonia. That's what they were designed for. But how far would a unit have to travel? Too far for one unit. What if more than one unity linked? Often units would link to boost both their speed and their range after all.
Frantic, they quickly cleared the dishes and pulled out their datapad, linking to their grandmother's database for the most recent intel on this region of space and Nagate's last know position and speed. Izana would figure out how to get Nagate back. It wasn't right that the only warrior living on Sidonia who'd killed a gauna should be lost to space.
Izana sat eating a late dinner and trying not to think of Nagate. Food always made them think of their missing friend, given he was the only person aboard Sidonia who needed to eat more than once a week. A wistful smile pulled at their lips at remembering the sounds his stomach often made but it quickly fell.
He wasn't just missing, he was gone. Sidonia would not turn back for him and everyday he was left farther behind. Just another life lost to the tragedies of the gauna attack.
Sighing, Izana took a bit of tsukemono (pickled vegetables) and looked about the house they shared with their Grandmother. They hadn't seen their grandmother in nearly a week now, not since before the attack. Izana knew she was okay though--a quick call the day after the attack had confirmed that--she'd just been busy with the reconstruction and other command staff duties. Like processing the dead.
A tear threatened. Izana knew they should be strong, many had lost more than her, but that did nothing to comfort them. So much death. It was all so overwhelming.
But there was still one life out there. One death that hadn't happened yet. One "death" that could be reversed. Sidonia couldn't turn around. It was not agile. It could not alter its inertia without more devastation to the internal structures or without the risk of slowing enough to allow any other gauna to catch them, but garde units were agile. They could fly back.
Izana froze, their chopsticks before their lips, shocked at the thought.
A garde unit could fly back to Nagate's last know position and return to Sidonia. That's what they were designed for. But how far would a unit have to travel? Too far for one unit. What if more than one unity linked? Often units would link to boost both their speed and their range after all.
Frantic, they quickly cleared the dishes and pulled out their datapad, linking to their grandmother's database for the most recent intel on this region of space and Nagate's last know position and speed. Izana would figure out how to get Nagate back. It wasn't right that the only warrior living on Sidonia who'd killed a gauna should be lost to space.