New Year's-Hope Springs Eternal [slight backdating]

[ships_full_of_missiles]

1. [For Gloval, the new year means paperwork. Supply ships have been offloading thousands of tons of ammunition, food, mecha parts...and, on occasion, incredibly ominous, extremely heavy crates covered in radiation hazard signs. Despite protests from the civilians on board, more and more military equipment is being loaded on to the massive ship-and nobody's getting off.

With all that on his plate, Gloval's not going anywhere. He does, however, leave his office door slightly ajar, and have a snifter of brandy with him for the occasion.]


2. [It's New Year's Eve! And, for three very lovely ladies that means...drinking together in a dark corner of a bar. Alone.

Alone together, but still. Completely dateless.]


Another New Year's with just each other, huh...I wonder if it'll be like this come Valentine's day, too...


Well, we're not all dead, there's that to be happy about. And it's not like we're Commander Hayase...


[Shammy seems to smile at that, for some reason.]

Comments

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[prismphantom]

Hope I'm not interrupting at all.

[And here comes Selena, fresh back from another ranging.]

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[ships_full_of_missiles]

No, you're not.

[prismphantom]

Glad to hear it. I've brought the latest findings from the Soleares's scouting run. Didn't see a sign of anything as climactic as another incident between the Zentradi and Balmarians, but everyone seems to be moving and maneuvering around each other. Like everyone has some new plan or something they're getting geared up for.

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[break_the_nine]

[There was someone else at the bar surprisingly. Someone who looked like he shouldn't be there but managed to get in regardless.]

...

[Leos never really drank before. But it seems the realization that this would be the first New Years he'd spend without the people he loved hit him with the urge to get drunk and forget the rest of the night.]

Re: 2)

[ships_full_of_missiles]

[Yeah, they're definitely not gonna talk to Leos. That kid is SCARY, yo. Still, he's within earshot.]

D-did you just feel a chill down your spine...

[Quiet agreement all around the table.]

[break_the_nine]

[Leos is just going to drink some of the cheap swill that was the beer in his hands and let out a rather disgusted noise. The stuff was pretty bad, but meh he can get a lot of it. He glances around for the direction of the voice before returning to his beer and sighs.]

[It was honestly really quiet tonight and that's probably a good thing. If someone caused trouble, a drunk and bitter Leos would probably scare a good number of bar patrons.]

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[star_of_sad]

[Setsuko nods, deep in thought. She was in a place like this once. It was only a few months ago, but it feels like ages.]

So much has happened...

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[ships_full_of_missiles]

Oh! It's that glory stars person.


Yo, Setsuko! Mind sitting at the island of the amazons?


...you named the table?


Well, it seemed fitting.

[star_of_sad]

If you don't mind me.

[Setsuko will sit at the table, then.]

It was a... really big year, wasn't it?

[ships_full_of_missiles]

No kidding. There was that disaster over by Ceres...


All kinds of weird people showed up...


I went to space!

[star_of_sad]

[Setsuko looks up, remembering something... many somethings.]

Yeah...

At least there's relative peace for a while now.

I hope the new year will be peaceful too.

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[abugslife]

The people of Macross must be in terrible morale. Being so close to their home during an important holiday, and not being allowed to leave the ship.

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[ships_full_of_missiles]

That's putting it lightly; there are protests almost weekly. Lynn Kaifun hasn't helped matters...

...He's done a good job of keeping them from turning into riots, but it means I have to work faster than I'd like on Plan B.

[abugslife]

What is the plan B?

[ships_full_of_missiles]

Flagrant insubordination.

[abugslife]

Oh? Do you intend to let the civilians leave the ship somewhere after all?