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[gundamofthedesert]

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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.

Comments

[storms_eye]

[Truthfully she had meant the actual working mechas, but it was too awkward and unnecessary to correct him. He'd taken her literally, so it had been a poor choice of words.]

Sandrock? Is that like the name you gave it or it a production name like a car?

[Genuinely curious since she wasn't sure how popular mechs became in his timeline]

That would make sense. The technology existed before but then it was adapted for combat. [It's kind of amusing that some of these units were named after popular constellations ie. astrological signs. The rest was just disheartening to think about. War always came at a high cost even if their were times when it was the only way.] So there are actually colonies in space there too. That's incredible. [Trying to remain upbeat]

So you actually experienced combat and everything.. [.. and he looked so young. That meant things were so dire in the colonies that they sent out at least one kid to the frontlines.] I'm glad you got to see some semblance of peace before you got here.

[gundamofthedesert]

[Ah, Quatre would have certainly apologized if he had found out she actually meant ‘model’ as in the type. His mistake]

That’s the name the scientist who designed it gave it. The Gundams were more one of a kind and not mass produced. So Sandrock was only mine.

[He was rather proud of that]

Yeah, they’ve been in space for close to 200 years now. They are located at the Earth’s Lagrange points, which are locations where something can orbit the Earth and not be pulled into the Earth’s gravitational pull.

[He nodded]

A bit. I got pulled into it of my own accord, but it was not something I knew before piloting so my teammates were... more experienced with it.

[storms_eye]

[It was a near thing, but Sylvia prevented herself from saying "Neat!" or "That's so cool!". This was a real dimension somewhere, that experienced a real war... the Gundams were necessary for combat so one shouldn't blindly forget that aspect.]

Than no one else would have known quite how it operated. There's an advantage to that.

[Not that mecha control necessarily deviated all that much. In truth, she had no way of knowing, but even ordinary electronics had their own nuances from system to system.]

In my time, we aren't quite that advanced. There has been some space exploration, and I am from an Earth but no one lives in space exclusively.

You survived, so.. you must have picked up enough during.. everything.

[gundamofthedesert]

That is also true. They were similar to the mobile suits used by the Federation, but not quite the same. Even we would have had to explain to our teammates how to pilot our Gundams fully if we had switched because they all did different things.

You might get there eventually hard to say. I will say though, when you live in space... you really miss what is on the Earth.

I did. I feel like I am better at it that I was.

[storms_eye]

[If there was something she could understand it was strategizing. Although she hadn't mentioned it to many, Sylvia was big into a variety of games of all sorts]

Maybe. Not sure if it'll be in my life time.. but they do have that one space station, so it's kind of heading in that direction. It's just people can only stay up there a few months because of the differential gravity and the effect on the body.

So you've lived in both places? I guess that would be hard. [I mean, she experienced homesickness enough traveling on the train]

[When the conversation felt like it hit a natural lull she looked towards what must be the simulator]

So, how does this thing work?

[gundamofthedesert]

I see. That is good start then. Finding out the best way for people to be able to live in space after is the first step.

I grew up on the colonies in space. I always wanted to visit Earth because there is so much there I never could have seen in space. Now, I have spent some time on Earth and I miss it when I have to go back to space.

[But now back to the simulator]

So there are multiple options for suits to try and pilot. They range from basic land mobile suits to ones used in air or water to the most advanced which is used in space. Once you select a suit, it gives you location to practice using it.