http://wardeninexile.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] wardeninexile.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] srwug_alpha_rp2012-09-20 11:10 am

Clan Wolf-in-Exile

Despite helping out with the repairs on the Chalice, you may have noticed some of the clanners being more restless than usual.

[1]

On this particular day, a rather large screen had been set up together with communication consoles at an unused corner of the hangar. Several clanners had gathered – including former bondsmen. The dire wolf pups were there as well, sniffing about curiously.

Ranna spoke softly to someone over the comms, before ending it with “Aff, my Khan.”

She switched on the video feed on the screen – it was Earth orbit again, except as the screen panned out, a ship almost a mile long went by. It was followed by another ship that was almost 900m long, both carrying the insignia of Clan Wolf. Both appeared damage, though around them were aerospace fighters and dropships flying escorts. The view continued to panned, as the main bulk of the exiled Wolves appeared.

Tens of jumpships, with hundreds of dropships trailed the 2 warships. There were various different designs, and many of them were visibly unarmed.

A secondary display on the screen showed their telemetry, and their intended destination as some of the dropships began their descent into atmosphere – Siberia.

At this, most of the clanners and even some of the wolf pups were silent, watching the screen intently.

Clan Wolf had completed its own Exodus, not unlike their Great Father many centuries ago.

[2]

The aftermath of the first landings were hectic, as Ranna and her fellow clanners took in reports of their available strength.

Finally there were some breather, and Ranna stared at the clipboard in her hand, a list of ship names apparent. Her attention was focused on the final ship listed.

Mother Jocasta, Cameron-class Battlecruiser

She crossed out some words and corrected it with a marker.

Ulric Kerensky Mother Jocasta, Cameron-class Battlecruiser

She sighed softly.

[identity profile] an-alpha-wolf.livejournal.com 2012-09-20 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
Resnick stood with his arms crossed, but smiling a little. The damage they'd sustained in transit wasn't as bad as he'd thought, and he approved of the renaming.

"Not bad, quiaff?."

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[identity profile] getter-class.livejournal.com 2012-09-20 07:42 am (UTC)(link)
[Hayato evesdrops a lot more now that he doesn't have his own ship to hang out on.]

So the rest of your friends made it.

[identity profile] an-alpha-wolf.livejournal.com 2012-09-20 11:02 am (UTC)(link)
"The Scientists say the pups are developing well. There is only one thing bothering me..."

He removed his own tabled, hit a few buttons to get to a chart showing the Wolf chain of command.

"The computer keeps trying to change the Khan's name back to what it was before he was one of us."

[identity profile] getter-class.livejournal.com 2012-09-20 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
He nodded and watched the massive ships fly past for a bit.

"The Feds must be shitting themselves over that fleet showing up out of nowhere."

He didn't sound displeased by the notion.

[identity profile] an-alpha-wolf.livejournal.com 2012-09-20 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
"What?!" He did not look pleased. "Even the ilKhan can't simply...make up a bloodname!" And then he looked embarrassed at the contraction that slipped out.

[identity profile] getter-class.livejournal.com 2012-09-20 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"Honestly, I've found it easier to do my job now that they don't basically control the Earth. Fewer bureaucrats looking over my shoulder and poking their noses where they won't do any good."

[identity profile] getter-class.livejournal.com 2012-09-21 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
"Not...Precisely. They kept sending people to investigate the Getter Ray Laboratory. A few of them had unfortunate accidents, but they were insistent, and next thing you know Getter Ray research has been banned world wide."

He grimaced in irritation, thinking about it.

"It still is, I think, but considering what we accomplished, I doubt anyone is going to complain."

[identity profile] getter-class.livejournal.com 2012-09-21 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
"My peers were on my side for the whole time. Those government goons would have barely been worthy of note if they didn't have the might of the Federation backing them up."

The insult of having to knuckle under and toe the line apparently still burns a bit.

[identity profile] an-alpha-wolf.livejournal.com 2012-09-21 11:31 am (UTC)(link)
"He should have been! The Great Father clearly meant bloodnames to be a legacy of the original eight hundred." The irony of arguing this point with someone who was a literal descendant of his was lost on him for the moment.

[identity profile] getter-class.livejournal.com 2012-09-21 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"Unfortunately. But in the end, the Federation is a shadow of it's former self, and we've won against the Invaders. So the hell with 'em"

He turned back to the view of the clan ships up in orbit. "So what happens to your clan now?"

[identity profile] getter-class.livejournal.com 2012-09-22 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
"Touman?"

[identity profile] an-alpha-wolf.livejournal.com 2012-09-22 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
He doesn't say anything to that, just folds his arms and frowns. She has a point and he doesn't want to acknowledge it. Doubtless l'esprit de escelair will overcome him later and he'll think of the perfect comeback.

"It is a relief having some naval support. It did not sit right with me knowing that the Federation or Axis Zeon could bombard us any time they wished."

[identity profile] an-alpha-wolf.livejournal.com 2012-09-23 08:57 am (UTC)(link)
"Look around you." He gestures, as if encompassing the whole of the Earth. "Terra is littered with the scars they gave her. The first Zeon dropped a space colony onto Australia. Neg, they do not have anything like our regard for sacred Terra."

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