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[The video opens with very excited Quatre, quite clearly trying to keep from bouncing excitedly]

Fellow passengers of the train, good morning! I made a request for an item and I wasn't actually sure if I'd get it or what it would be if I did, but...

[And he shows off what arrived for him... which just basically looks like a large box]

It is mobile suit cockpit simulator! So it's like piloting a mobile suit without actually piloting one!

[He very briefly showed off the inside of it, which looked like a cockpit]

Once I get it to the games carriage, I'm going to take a look at the options already programmed and add as many as I remember. It'll be available for anyone to try out. Also if you have one that would be piloted like that, I can try to add yours.

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Quatre can either be found in the luggage carriage, trying to figure out to move this very large object... or he can be found in the games carriage once it has been moved, checking what has already been programmed into the system.

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Still with the legs or did they have some kinda fish tail? [It's not even a joke question. He asks it very earnestly, expression deeply confused by the prospect of a giant robot underwater plodding along diving-bell style.]

[But hell, if someone could make it work they made it work!]

Sounds like a good time, anyway.

[He never knew the names of constellations on other worlds. They just end up translated by devices sometimes. Right now they just register as randomass names.]

Pisces starts out looking like a very small submarine, then it changes to be... human, but with short legs and very long arms. Cancer always looks like a crab.

[Yes, OZ had taken the dedication to the Zodiac named suits very seriously]

Great. If you wanted to wait, I should be able to get this up pretty quick. Or it will be here so there's no real hurry.

I don't mind waitin', but I could help you out if you want it. Hold pieces in place and whatnot as ya needed 'em. [He offers, mostly because he'd needed help in putting together the flight sim.]

You get real handy with emergency mechanical work? I had to do that quite a bit on the fly. [It's always a good skill to have, and one good to know other people have.] I know it's near impossible to fix major damage but adjustin' more minor shit and slappin' on quick fixes until you can pay for some bodywork or last as much of a fight as you can make it or break it.

That's fine. There might be a few things like that. I've never really looked at this one before.

[He started poking around at the controls]

I've always been good at mechanical work. Nothing too crazy, but I can read plans and put things together. I did put together one of the Gundams. Granted, not by hand completely, I was the one who got it up and running.

[And installed a very dangerous system in it shhhh...]

I don't usually get as many options to do it myself back home. I have a lot of people who are paid to do that and I'm not expected to.

Great skill to work on while ya got the chance. Slappin' some machine into a more hostile version of itself can make all the differ'nce in a fight. I done it a few times.

[He's turned drills into disco balls of painful lasers and sleek ships into projectile drones. He's done all kinds of things along those lines. There's a ton of potential in Quatre to do the same, he reckons, if he's got that kind of experience.]

I got a tool box too ifn' you need it. Just back in my room.

[Not that it's as good compared to some other people's tool kits, but it's definitely not bad.]

[He chuckled at that]

I suppose that's kind of what the Gundams were, but they were more planned. The Federation and OZ were trying to take over the colonies and using their own suits to do it so the Gundams were an answer to that. Similar in design, but made a lot stronger and with better weapons.

Though... I did kind of do that. With the Wing Zero, which was the suit that I got up operational, I was responsible for putting the Zero system in it.

[Since he knew that meant nothing, he explained]

The Zero system is program that simultaneously shows the pilot options currently available in a fight. All of them. It is useful and very difficult to beat, but it is usually hard for the pilot to control. Only a few of us have been able to master it.

Oh yeah? How did that turn out? Or has it seen much action yet.

[A few rounds can't tell you as much as prolonged exposure. Hard to tell when predictive systems were a solid investment or not.]

This gonna come with somethin' to simulate it?

Oh, that saw plenty of action. [Quatre sighed] It kind of got turned against us for a while. They made some of the mobile suits were installed with it and basically... used it without a pilot. They were called Mobile Dolls. Very dangerous because they could think two steps ahead of you and they didn't care able causalities.

Gosh, I hope not... It made me temporarily crazy and wanting to destroy things. It made Duo, WuFei, and Trowa temporarily crazy as well. It caused the deaths of a few pilots. Of the five of us, only Heero and I were remotely able to master it.

Had some control issues, huh? It's hard for AI and meatsacks like us to find some compatibility. Amazin' when you can but oh man.

[He looks over at the flight simulator. It's Nova Corp in make, different from this, but he's hoping its similar enough so that it won't take all today.]

You know, I could probably get some more of the tech used to change the console in the flight sim for your gundam set up if it doesn't have it. So you can change the interior to suit the type of machine you're mockin' up.

[Then, back to the previous topic.]

How'd you end up handlin' it?

Yeah. The problem when computers are fitted with weapons are given the ability to thing for themselves. Besides, war is pointless when it is fought between machines. Not that I want to see people die. I'd rather they didn't. But there's no incentive to stop pitting unmanned mobile suits against each other.

[He thought about that more a moment]

You know that would be a good idea. Almost suits in my world have the same basic cockpit layout, but there are differences. And I'm sure other worlds will have different cockpits.

Zero System. It seems to be more a matter of being strong willed enough to not let Zero get to you. When I first used it, I was not in a good place and Zero pushed me too far. When I tried it again, it was easier. Of course, I was hesitant to try it knowing what it had done to me before.

People gonna die anyway. That's how war works. Even if ya don't put people people in the cockpit. Or if ya use things ya don't consider people. [He was one of those 'things' at one point. War is war and people die.]

Shouldn't be too hard to manage. How about next time I do a shop order I put in the points for ya. I bet there are a few folks like Kaiba or Bulma or Devero that could install it no problem.

[Not in a good place, though?] What kinda spot were you in that made it rough on ya? Other'n basic 'war is hell' stuff.

That is true. People will always die. But the equivalent is essentially telling two identical computers to have a chess match against each other, with no outside input, and then punish those on the side that loses. Even if people don't die because of it, one side is still punished for something that they have no control over.

[He smiled] That would be wonderful. Thank you.

[Quatre was quiet for a long moment] The colonies were beginning to arm themselves and work with those who had been our enemy. My family had always believed in total pacifism. I was the odd one who realized the peace can't always come from just words.

When the colonies voted against my father and his advice, he took one of our resource satellites and detached it from the colony to make a point.

[Quatre was silent as he poked around at the simulator]

The colonies destroyed the satellite he was on.

[That is a hell of a way for shit to go wrong.]

Sorry that happened. Seems like he was a good fella... Always sorry to hear when people like that don't make it.

[Sometimes he feels like there needs to be just enough violence to protect the soft-hearted people. That's the job he settles into if he can. Being the one to make the shit choices to protect the weaker ones.]

You're right though, about how this shit works? War games are pretty bullshit. [Yet, still, even as he looks at the sims he misses a good fight.] A system like that needs a steady head behind it. How were things when you left 'em?

[Quatre nodded]

We didn't always see eye to eye, but... my sister always insisted that my father loved me. He at least held to his ideals and wanted peace between the Earth and the colonies. Just... with no violence was not possible.

[He sighed. It had been first time he admitted here not only what he had done, but why. He got the feeling that Yondu would understand]

When I left, we were finally at peace. My world had stopped fighting for a while, but the mobile suits still existed. Of course, others were tempted. This time... even they are gone. [The mobile suits, not the people]

[He does understand. Enough that it leads him to speak his previous thought aloud.]

I've met some good people with good ideas. I even loved plenty of 'em. But I think that maybe sometimes someone with a gentle heart needs a harder one to do what they cain't. Not that I think you're hard-hearted but... seems like you got more of a leathery coatin' on yours than one would expect.

[Quatre seems like over all a good kid, though, leaning more towards that good nature.]

Just gotta make sure no one wants to build new ones, I guess. [Wanting to makes the difference. But then attempts to lighten it up.] ...Well, unless you're fightin' some space monster instead of each other. I'd love to kick a few things I fought in my regular clothes with a big-ass robot.

[He smiled] I understand. My father was an idealist. In a perfect world, they would have worked. But the world is hardly perfect. I was more of realist in that way.

I'm sure someone is going to try at some point, but it will be harder since most of facilities that were used for them have either been taken down or are under heavy watch. But... hopefully, we can keep that up. [He chuckled though at the comment] I'm sure that would be more fun. And much easier.

Yeah, generally fightin' somethin' that's just raw hunger and attitude is a lot more fun. Hopefully we get the chance.

[Hey, them no consequence enemies feel pretty good sometimes.]

So I saw some walker type things what exist on Hera's world. Think maybe if I get that modification equipment it could be expanded to include that?

[He chuckled at that] Hopefully. And hopefully we get a mobile suit to do it. Would be much easier.

It's worth a shot. I'm willing to have other options added onto it. I'm already going to work on putting the Gundams in so others can try them out.

[And because he wants to pilot Sandrock again even if it is only a simulator]

Honestly I want the chance to try one out, too. [He's used to killing pilots in big robots, not being inside one. But he's not going to say that to this good boy. He doesn't need that.]

And it's good of ya to add somethin' that'll help out other crew.

[Because Yondu thinks any and all training can help them. This definitely has potential for it.]

When they aren't being used for fighting, they are pretty amazing. [No, he doesn't. To be fair, he was also the Gundam pilot who tried to let enemies surrender to him so he didn't have to kill them. They rarely took it, but he had tried.

He nodded] A lot of people have been curious, I guess because they don't have them, but they are also good to know how to use if this place should give us something like them.

Even if it's sharin' a bit of world it's helpin', whether we get to use it or not. When I first got the flight sim, partially I got it 'cause Della was homesick.

She was a good lady.

[He's sad she went. She did a lotta good for a lotta people, and they definitely felt her absence.]

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[He smiled faintly when Yondu said that]

Yeah, she was. I spoke to her a few times. I enjoy talking with her.

It was nice havin' her. She understood what it was like to miss your kids.

[Literal about empty nest, he supposes. Also she understood what it was like messin' up as a parent and wanting to make it right.]

[Quatre nodded. He didn’t understand that part specifically, but he understood the idea of finding someone on the train who had at least enough of a similar background]

It’s good that you two were able to talk about that together.

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