The Republic of Wechen, a relatively small coastal nation surrounded by two larger countries, the Twin Duchies of Kaargal and Lauresta borders the Republic to the west and north with the Cregs Mountain ranges splitting the two nations. This Mountain range surrounds the Republic protecting it from any invaders with the Julian Highways connecting the two nations.
South of the Republic is the Koran principality, the largest country in the eastern continent rival only rivaled by the Republic of the Arkennian States to its west at the Duncun swamps also dubbed as the border swamps.
Unlike the twin Duchies that is covered mostly in snow because of the cold winds coming from the northern most continent of Enrich. Wechen has a relatively warm air coming from the Eastern Ocean and has a rich fertile soil because volcanic dust that was last harvested during the last eruption from the many small volcanoes of the mountain range.
This made the Republic abundant when it comes to crop yields during the harvest season in the entire continent. Their military focuses on defensive warfare designed to defend and hold the Escar roads that pass thru the Mountains and most of their armore suit are stationed near the borders of the Principality.
Unlike the Julian Highways, the Escar roads are purposely built to be narrow and difficult to pass thru, especially heavy vehicles like tanks or heavy duty trucks with multiple easy to defend choke points.
The Capital is city is relatively small than the other nations. The city a simply call the Werchrian capitol is built near the Old Werchian Bay with atleast four air destroyers and the rest of their navy are parked on the sea or on some unused dry docks.
Inside the main military headquarters, Elderly men are shouting against one another “That Cruiser was lost near to our border; if the Duchies used this as a reason to attack us then we’re done for!! I suggest we begin mobilization of our army and defend our people!”
“Who cares about the Duchies! We can just tell them that it happened outside our territory then we don’t have any liability” Another one reasoned. But he was glared at the people around him with one saying “This happens when we allowed people who didn’t learn anything from the academy”
“And they can say that we didn’t care about the citizens who cried for help and we didn’t responded or bothered to help and letting their people to die right at our door step” another one argued “Because of that, they can say that we shout about protecting the liberty and freedom of democracy yet we let people be killed and sold into slavery. They can also use it to make Wechens like us into hypocrites. Especially when they helped us when we needed them during the Great war”
“And if we didn’t investigate this, this might sour our relationship with the Duchies. Especially that most of our military might are positioned south of our territory defending for any impending invasion of the principality”
That is when the door of the meeting burst opened with a man sweating bullets and shouted “There’s an s-sea faring warship near our border!”
“That’s preposterous; we all know that the use of seafaring is utterly useless against airships in this time and age, they're basically museum artifacts!” The young commander said “having a sea faring warship will be sitting ducks to the airships that are flying with the clouds. What kind of idiot has the bright idea to build and use those kinds of warships?”
“What does the warship is doing, how many guns that it has?” another one asked “From what the scouts reported is that they only saw a single small caliber cannons”
“Then they must be just a weak country that doesn’t have the technology to build airships”
The soldier then said “They wish to speak to us and to open a diplomatic relationship with out country"
"Which country those this sea ship belong to?"
"They call themselves Dalmascans"
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A few weeks ago
Lourette is sleeping soundly inside the submarine, she and the baby that she was found with is currently being carried by Aina. Because her military uniform is rough and uncomfortable when carrying an infant, Aina decided to remove it and tied it too her waist, after all. she can simply iron it back; Now she’s carrying the child with her black tank top revealing that she has a fit muscular build of her body while still being feminine at the same time.
Seeing that the baby is finally asleep, she laid the child down next to the sleeping girl. “How the hell did it ended up like this?” She asked herself after.
Sitting down on the chair in the other side of the room, she let out a tired sigh of relief after putting the baby back to sleep for the fifth time “This must be how my parents felt when they were taking care of me as a baby” Aina said when she heard a knock.
Opening the door is a young man wearing the Dalmascan Navy uniform of royal blue and light yellow highlights. “The captain said that you need to report to him what happened to that on that ship ASAP.”
“I’m leaving the two with you, but if the baby wakes up, I’m going to kill you. You understand” Aina said to the seaman before marching off while wearing her wrinkled uniform.
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Inside the submarine’s control room, although it’s cramped, there’s still some room for officers like a captain to stand up, move around, and give orders for the crew and pilots to report to directly to the captain. Infront of Aina is an old man, wearing the same navy uniform but with a few more decorations to show his rank as the submarine’s captain.
“Lance Corporal Chrocia, I believe that you already know the reason to why I called you here ”the captain said. “Yes captain” Aina answered.
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Lourette is staring at the Giant Mechanical Blue Cyclops. Her golden yellow eyes stare at the giant’s lone red eye at it stares at her back. Soon the head started to move looking at the weird plane passes by them.
The torso then opens up followed by a hissing sound scaring the girl “Don’t come near me” Lourette said as she took a few steps back. Exiting the torso is someone wearing some kind of a suit that is completely alien to her.
“Don’t be scared” a female voice said as she the helmet of the strange armor revealing her red hair and blue eyes to Lourette. The fighter then once again passes by causing her hair to be blown. The young girl who is mesmerized of the older woman’s beauty could only stare at her.
The ship then started to shake with a strange vessel starting to rise from under the water and armed men started to board the ship. The older woman then walks towards the blonde girl and said “My name is Aina Chrocia, what’s yours?”
“My name is Lourette” Lourette answered as her green eyes stares at Aina while she’s being over shadowed by the giant machine.
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Inside the “ghost ship”, Dalmascan marines are taking as much as they can. Finding objects that are odd or outright ancient in design like the stored cars within the ship’s cargo bay or the clothes on the corpses as well as some everyday items like pens and smoking pipes.
They then managed to get their hands on things like maps and a few information about the ship named Ellah a luxury air cruiser. although they don't know anything about it especially the country it belongs too, the twin kingdoms. This didn't sit well with the Dalmascans.
"Look at these things, where are we, a 1940s themed festival?" One asked while retrieving valuables from the corpses and labeling it.
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Back inside the submarine fleet. Aina was granted permission to go back to her quarters only to see that the Navy officer is sleeping soundly with the two. The infant is using his right arm as a pillow and Lourette is using his left arm. This however cause the pilot just leave the three and went to outside of the submarine as the ship simply floats next to the large luxury cruise.
There, she saw birds similar to seagulls flying pass by with a Dalmascan carrier and cruisers arriving from the distance. "What the hell is happening, we were celebrating and the next thing is we're here in the middle of nowhere" Aina commented. With fighters flying pass by the submarine, She couldn't help but wonder if the entire kingdom was transported into a different world. Then Dalmasca itself is threatened by the unknown and they might need to expand their armed forces again. which will not sit well from the general public.
Well whatever happens then it would simply fall onto the wigs and how they will the threats. "War might be inevitable if we don't do something" she thought. Sure they have a decent armed forces but their auxiliary army is not that great with just armed civilian mobile suits that might not do the job well with how clunky some of the designs were like the cannon version that can't move that much. The sniper that is stationary and a big target for any maneuverable mobile suits and the basic armed type that is the most decent among them all.
"Screw this. Its above my paycheck" Aina thought.
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"Where are we going?" the King ask as he and gis most trusted general alongside a few royal guards are walk thru a barely lite walls of a bunker near Dalmasca's Capital City, Rabanastre (Ra-Ba-Nas-Ter). " Your majesty, after the Junius treaty was signed, I approached both Zaft and the Alliance to ask for mobile suits and armors that they no longer want since the treaty limit to how many mobile suits a power can have and both of them are more than happy to dump large quantities of unwanted mobile suits into Dalmascan soil. Especially the Alliance who gave us a fourth of their Daggers outside of us buying the some models and Zaft giving us the all of their unwanted Ginns and Guaiz with their variants when they started to field their Zakus and Goufs in large numbers." Bartz explained.
"Don't tell me."
"Yes your Majesty, many of those machines are right here" Bartz said as he open a door and the king of Dalmasca seeing rows upon rows of mobile suits from Strike Daggers and Dagger Ls to Ginns and Bucues. There are also Guaiz and Guaiz R. On the far side are a few Zakus "In exchange, Zaft would conduct a few experiments with their Zakus here but the war abruptly started so they have to pull out leaving behind some of their machines like Goufs and Zakus. I would say that we're lucky that happened or else the alliance would've attacked us. I also managed to get my hands on the blueprints of something they call a Dom trooper by giving a few Dagger Ls and Astray to an old friend of mine before the first war, someone named Andrew." Bartz explained.
"Why did this happened behind my back? Why did you had done this without my knowledge, have you not trusted me?" the King asked "Its not you who I do not trust, it the people around you, your majesty. If I had told you of this, someone would most likely tip either Zaft or the Alliance and invade our kingdom. But if I was discovered, then I will take the blame as a coup" the Generl explained.
"All I need is your blessing to activate this army and give it to our forces and expand our mobile suit core your Majesty. Rumors has it that our country was transported into another world that we know nothing about and if its true, then it would explain the sudden lost of contact with our embassies and the outside world and we must be ready to what's to come." Bartz said. "Right now, Dalmasca needs to be defended with anything that it can muster whatever the cost. Without the powers to keep any nations in check, our Kingdom is alone to the unknown."
"I king Darrus El. Dalmasca, with the authority under the heaven and god as my witness give the full blessing to Major General Bartz N. Field to use whatever is necessary to defend the Kingdom of Dalmasca at all cost" The King declared.
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"Extra! Extra! the armed forces increase it military spending, its most likely that the armed forces might issue a draft for all able men to join" a boy running around with a news paper in hand shouted as he gives away he local paper. Its been half a week since then and the King alongside the National Diet had announced that Dalmasca is all alone. All connection to the outside world was cut.
Military Factories was placed into full scale production to build more tanks and planes while some harbor are starting to build ships. Within Mukasya are large docks designed to build large aircrafts if not the largest aircrafts ever recorded in history.
Hundreds of mobile suits was then scrapped for parts for maintenance and for the Dalmascan engineers to understand the basis of building mobile suits and such.
Lastly, with the discovery of the unknown ship that belongs to an unknown country clearly stated a message to the Dalmascans. They're not alone in this world and they don't know if they're hostile or not. Dalmasca can't afford to be optimistic if with no knowledge of the new outside world.