"Today, thanks to the dedication of the fleet; the soliders to which many of us here on Jiyuu and the other colonies are related to either by genetic or associative line, we have created a group of colonies: The United Outer Colonies."
Awareness of self, it is faced by all beings willing to seek some kind of meaning in life. In the tank, behind the closed eyelids it sparked once more. She could feel herself, she knew herself; overcame lifelessness for the second time. Unlike the first, her wakening was not scary, she felt as the hemosynthetic fluids swirled around her as the tank began to drop the fluid level.
She coughed as the air replaced fluid, the liquid draining from her mouth an nose. Her eyes opened, reborn, but not child-like; she was not a child anymore, a woman and one who unknowingly had the hearts of billions --enough so for them to do as she, to have sacrificed comfort for belief, for truth.
"We have come a long way from those cramped halls on Pisces, and it was because of our own resourcefulness..."
"Distance, has created a divide. During the war goods rarely flowed our way, so we had to build mines, we used what we had and we made something of ourselves."
Her sapphire orbs revealed, her eyelids trembling to clear the cloudiness from her eyes. Naked, vulnerable, she looked up from the tank towards Caine, towards Saito. She whispered, "I failed, didn't I?" she looked around, it did not make sense, her mind fresh from the point she had finished planning. There were no guards there to take her, and criminals were not reborn, what had happened? Had she given in?
"Sadly it seems the rest of the Empire, feels like we are the misfits; not only were we neglected in the past, but our voices demanding peace have been drown by the war cries...It is for this, for peace, for the ability to determine our own destiny..."
"... it has come time for us to declare ourselves independent."
