Unerased Savior

[empress_without_a_throne]

1.

[SolSavior's seen better days.  Lots of them.  Even the fight with Sara had confined the damage to mostly just SolSavior's joints and more vulnerable spots, whereas this scuffle with Sol"Eraser"'s seen much of the true and honest Sol machine pushed to the limit]

The Shadow Mirrors and the Indalph... united in desires for conflict and conquest.  Justify war to provide a reason for technological advancement and growth, and just move from world to world so you're never short on supply.  I wouldn't be surprised if the Shadow Mirror's own world just drove them away...

Certainly would explain why they didn't try coming to us asking for help... or the Indalph doing anything for them either, come to think of it.

Or maybe they really just don't care.  They certainly all have a trend for disregarding the weak and undesired.

2.

[And yet the Savior team weren't the ones that got the roughest fate out there.  The memorial for fallen pilots has a new entry, and double agent status be damned...]



... Lamia...

[Mizuki's still going to pay her respects.]

I wish the circumstances of... everything... could've been better.  For your sake.

Wherever you are, whatever afterlife exists for... whatever you were... rest well.  When it came to it, you were our friend, not the Shadow Mirror's tool.  And we'll see them pay for what they did to everyone, you included.

Comments

[itbelongsinamuseum]

Yes...Something better than what those people gave to her.

[empress_without_a_throne]

In a way it's almost funny even. The Indalph and Shadow Mirrors, staffed by those who joined willingly. At some point in his life, even Feith-Val must've been just an ordinary person. And they all decided to follow a path of conquest.

Lamia was a creation meant to serve them, but she chose us and our way of life over theirs.

I'm not sure what this says about either ideology.

[itbelongsinamuseum]

Probably just that people choose what they believe in...But it seems more common to side with something that isn't constant war.

[empress_without_a_throne]

At least if you go by life on Earth. Once you start including people like the Wulgaru and Zentradi... things get more complicated.

[itbelongsinamuseum]

Right...I wonder what's even up with them. They seem like they should be similar to humans, but they seem far more homogeneous than humans have ever been.

[empress_without_a_throne]

The Zentradi especially...

From what I've heard of while they were captured, it's almost as if they come off an assembly line. Not born, but made-

[She snorts.]

... Not unsimilar to Lamia.

[itbelongsinamuseum]

It's what I heard. I wonder who manages it all, they have to need to perform maintenance as well...

[empress_without_a_throne]

The reports about damage in their ships makes me wonder if they perform maintenance at all.

... Though if they're that technologically and intellectually stagnant and yet are a galactic power... they certainly at least make up for quality with quantity.

[itbelongsinamuseum]

Well, they shouldn't be too hard to beat if their ships are literally falling apart.

[empress_without_a_throne]

Individually... I suppose they aren't. But there's just so many of hem... even to the point that they're rivals to the Balmarians and WUlgaru.

[itbelongsinamuseum]

Right. I wonder how long they have stuck around like that.