"IRG made this experimental body for me.. as for myself as an AI, Kishiro Technologies' AI Developments division created me and Bride-san, but our creator, the head developer had died in a crash. I have no memories of him.. nearly everything I knew before meeting Hanamura-sensei. We were most likely planned to be display prototypes, as that appears to be custom with projects like ours." she says as she redresses her obi, and proceeds across the bridge into a small cul-de-sac in the suburbs on the outskirts of the city, walking towards a monorail station two blocks away. "I don't see it that way, to be honest - I feel happy to live a life like this.. especially since I would have been tossed out into the trash by my creators - I was just a prototype, after all..."
"Hmm... Well as far as I can tell, your creator... Or would it be Father? Either way, they outdid themselves." A smile returns to her face as they head to the Monorail.
"I'm glad you're happy... Still doesn't change my point of it being more then a little immoral to do something like that."
She chuckles softly. "Thank you for giving my the benefit of the doubt... It means a lot to me that you are willing put faith in this meeting."
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"It's okay, Noel-san. Even though I only just met you, I think of you as a friend." Honya says as they approach the building where the monorail station is located. "So.. Why did you decide to leave Gallia? Was it because of the war?" she asks, curious about Noel's origins.
"Well I left Gallia because Seline had a horrible case of exploding control panel to the face." She laughs for a moment then returns to a more serious tone. "If you're asking why turn my back on generation after generation of tradition... Well, there's not really a better way to this but, it's because I reached Kusari... I know, it sounds stupid. But information about what the Roi and their forces are doing is so limited, so filtered. When I landed on New Tokyo at the Gallic embassy it wasn't much different really... But then I was able to explore for myself, see things as they really were, not censored or fabricated to make the war look more noble then it is, granted... Then I wrote it off to be mere propaganda like the Maquis throws around." She sighs softly. "Then I started to notice contradictions in the Information given to us... Even Nobility in the Royal Navy don't get the whole truth..." She looks back to where the Gold-1 is, a distant look in her eyes. "When I returned to Gallia through Rishiri there was a transport... Taking passengers from La Charite to Lyon, I thought nothing of it until the Royal Police stopped it... Turns out there was a member of the Council aboard... instead of just arresting the criminal like the laws normally dictate, they opened fire on it even though there were dozens of innocents still inside, and even destroyed the escape pods that got away... That by itself was... beyond horrific, but when news of it came out... They claimed it was loaded with explosives and was bound of Ile de France herself, I asked Papa about this, but he was told that it was filled with Council Marines set to take the Battleship Epinal... And that the information given to the public was to make it so they wouldn't be afraid of a Valor coming under control of the rebels. It just... Dumbfounded me that they would lie to an Admiral... So I started looking into things, more and more falsehoods started showing themselves, including multiple families in the Court of the Roi being arrested for connections to would be assassins that we stopped... The evidence provided was faked, some of the assassins were linked to families they had no ties to, and in one case linked to a family that they hated... I know this because it was one that I myself stopped! That's when I finally realized how Corrupt and lost the Royal family and their supporters are... So I made the choice to go to one of the few groups that might know the truth, the Council themselves. They of course did not trust me at first, why would they? But they indulged me and showed me reports, not theirs, but the Royal Navy's... The unfiltered and unaltered reports that showed just how horrible the things that were being done in the Kings name are... And how hard the colonies are fighting back against the monstrous actions of the crown." She looks back to Honya slightly embarrassed. "Forgive me... I started rambling didn't I? I guess if I had to pick a reason for leaving... It would be to see things as they are, away from the lies and propaganda spread by my house and it's people. Or, to get a taste of freedom from the crown perhaps."
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Honya analyzes every phoneme, every word, every sentence, visualizing her story in in real time in her mind. Moments later, Honya moves to hug her friend, only to pull off a few seconds later. "I'm sorry that you've gone through all this.. Leaving your family behind, turning on them, must be very hard. The Roi are very cruel.. Hanamura-sensei and I used to smuggle goods into Marne for the Council - I can't count on fingers and toes how many times we encountered gunboats, and even seen what .. There was one time when we went to rescue a downed Crayter Republic transport, what had been beached on a asteroid in Tau-29 after a Bretonian Privateer had damaged it severely.. Me and Bride-san had to fend off the Marine Royale Gauloise's fighter groups using only Dulzian-type turrets, up until we had to run away from a strike group approaching us. I was fearing for our life. Hanamura-sensei hates the Crown because she believes the Nomads are a bigger threat - and given what we've seen in recent weeks at Freeport 11, it's a very good justification for it."Honya says, explaining her side of the coin.
She is caught off guard by Honya's hug, but she merely sighs and returns it. "Please, do not feel sorry for my choice... It may have been hard, but it was the correct one. And I refuse to regret it." After listening to what Honya says, Noel shrugs and let's a rather cold sounding chuckle. "I'm not going to pretend I understand the intricacies of your situation in the Omicrons, I am a Noblewoman... Or at least was, Not a politician who familiarizes myself with the issues of other Houses in an effort to advance my own standing." She places her hand on her face clearly angry with herself at that outburst. "Forgive me, that was beyond uncalled for... Anyway, I've heard very much about Ms Hanamura. Judging by how you address and regard her, the things I've heard are true."
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