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GunDread SEED- The Second Stage

 

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Prologue

 

Dangerous times…

 

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On the planet once called Earth…

 

The Earth Council was in session, in the chamber filled and covered with cold emotionless metal, much like the former humans who now reside in them.

 

The members of the Council finished their deliberations and then turned their attention to the records in a nearby view-screen..

 

The images on the Council's view screen depicted the disaster that was known as the Battle in Quadrant A-6, in which they had lost a quarter of their forces…

 

To the Nirvana…

 

“We had expended great amounts of resources in total to create our fleets, and so far we all had acceptable losses, but the loss of a battleship and 100% of its escort fleet is totally unacceptable.” One council leader stated as he watched the images on the view screens, all showing nothing but wrecks and scrap.

 

“All thanks to this ship and its forces!” Another gritted as the images depicted the Nirvana and its forces of Dreads, and Vanguards.

 

“And most of all…thanks to that Gundam.”

 

The images changed to show Freedom once more active and fighting Dominion, and the newly evolved GunDreads as the battle footage went underway.

 

The images disappeared as the whole Earth Council faced each other.

 

“We had developed a weapon without any weakness and had given it powers to rival that Gundam, or even to surpass it! And yet the Freedom came back and destroyed Dominion, and then it decimated an entire combat fleet. What are we going to do now?”

 

The Council faced their top weapons specialist who cringed at the questioning looks of his superiors.

 

“We had no way of…”

 

“Silence! I am asking you directly as YOU were the one who came up with the development of the Dominion. You yourself said that you designed the weapons of the Gundam to surpass that of the Freedom, and we saw the Dominion plunge it's beam saber deep in the Freedom's chest, and the Gundam and it's pilot still survived that horrendous wound where no one else could have… yet they…lived. How is that possible?”

 

“I do not know…masters.”

 

“Of course…you all thought that by merely using those beam attacks you installed in Dominion then the battle would have been won. It would have been better that you ordered the Dominion to bring back both Freedom's wreckage and the carcass of the pilot here to truly show to us that they were dead, and instead of confirming the kills with proper physical evidence, you all mislead us in your arrogance and pride with the Gundam you spawned, and now you shall suffer.”

 

The technician crumpled to the floor in pain and agony as he convulsed as the obedience chip hotwired to his pain receptors was activated. In the span of an agonizing minute and a half, the pain ended as he then tried to recover slowly.

 

“Your creation failed to eliminate these pests in the path of the Harvest; I don't even know why we even decided to let your staff create that…”

 

“The Dominion…may have been destroyed. But it's CPU…was not obliterated. Masters.”

 

The Harvesters stopped and looked at their underling. The leader spoke out as he told the tech to rise. ”What do you mean?”

 

“We had decided that if the Nirvana could develop weapons the MAY surpass Dominion, we designed the CPU to record all the combat data that we could acquire for later testing and analysis. And in the event that the Dominion was destroyed the CPU would detach itself from the body and would send a retrieval signal to my core teams.”

 

“What good will that do for the Harvest?”

 

“We still have the designs of Dominion in the archive computers, and with the combat data handed to us by the first Dominion model, we can update and re-program the next Dominion model to adapt to any new tactic the Freedom and it's pilot would use in the next encounter. With this data, plus the resources we have gained from several of the worlds that we have already harvested of organs, we can create not one Dominion…but a whole series of Dominion Gundam types, and each will be able to upgrade the new models using the data collected by those that HAVE been destroyed.”

 

The Council deliberated over the idea, and after several minutes, they nodded as the leader spoke to the head technician.

 

“When will the new Dominion units be ready?”

 

The tech nodded as he showed the Council some images.

 

“The new Dominion models have been completed, not three weeks ago, they have now finished downloading ALL the data from the first Dominion, thought they still have the same arsenals, they are far more capable than the first, and are ready to face off against the Nirvana. There are at least a half dozen of them ready for battle.”

 

“Good, but what about the enhanced GunDreads?” A Council member asked.

 

The tech nodded as the images changed to reveal another sinister looking machine.

 

“This one will deal with that. We have delved into the mysteries of the fusion process used by the Freedom and those strange Dreads. This machine creates an energy pulse beam that can cancel and disrupt the fusion process, plus it is more than ready to battle with the Nirvana forces.”

 

The Earth Council leaders then faced one another in discussion, once it was over the leader nodded.

 

“Send the new Dominion units, and the new ship against the Nirvana along with an assault detachment, the sooner we can destroy the Nirvana and that pesky Gundam, the smoother the Harvest will be.”

 

Another Council member then spoke. “But what IF the Freedom defeats the Dominion units, and defeats the next batch. That Gundam's pilot is VERY resourceful, his defeat of the first Dominion Gundam is proof of that.”

 

“If the new models fail, then we can improve the new ones that come, they will then gain the needed weapons and systems to finally crush the Freedom and the Nirvana. Besides that…” The tech nodded with a slight smile as he typed in some new codes.

 

The images changed to reveal three new Mobile Suit design plans and specifications.

 

“…who said that the Dominion Gundam is the only Gundam model we can make?”

 

To be continued…