DFS Lavie (Story)

The New Universes: DFS Lavie is the continuation of the TNU Core Storyline. It was once part of the Ninth Fleet and is now a member of Bravo Fleet’s Task Force 99 written through a collaborative writing medium (Play by Post Role Playing Game). The game takes place in 4566 following the crew of the Delta Force Ship Lavie which was originally commanded by Misuki Raion before her moving to the Federation Capital to work with President Lady Hukari Carain. The ship then commanded by Arisa Norinette whom Misuki Raion directly handed it over to; she left to go help Misuki and Hukari and Alex Werner; the former Captain of Shadow Fire was assigned to command. Alex was then promoted because of her longstanding time commanding Shadow Fire. Sophie Archer was then placed in command of the ship after Alex took her leave. She now oversees Trinity Operations on the ship and Yuka Layton was put in command of the ships general operations. The ship is tasked with missions of priority to the Federation Government; usually these missions are tactical in nature or in some cases the ship also conducts diplomatic missions. This story also further explores some of the alternate history of the Core Storyline and explains more about Jim Olend along with his dealings of a rather questionable nature. There is also additional discoveries regarding "magical" technologies in this story and Yuka Layton becomes the main character during this arc of the story. The story writing is overseen by Josh Hina.

Key Cast

For an updated list of characters please see the Lavie forum.

Summary

Story Summary – Mission 1: New Experiences

The story begins with Yuka and Kirin arriving in the future. Kirin is eventually found by The Alchemy Commission and put through a trial because of his powerful abilities. He was asked to join the Commission and he accepted. Yuka was doing work for Delta Force after being on the Future Earth for a bit of time on her own. She soon encounters RINZ whom states that she is his pilot. Wanting to get away from the people she is assigned to and wanting to prevent a fight she decides to get in RINZ. She then is taken to the FSS Trident en route RINZ and she is introduced to Lars and his transport ship. Upon arrival on the Trident Yuka is requested by the ship’s Captain whom tells her the cold hard truth of what FSF does and that she WILL service them. She declines and is attacked by the Captain. She manages to escape his office and return to RINZ leaving the Trident against orders. RINZ and Yuka run off to an asteroid belt and hide. This is when the Lavie is brought in to help search. Kirin is sent to the Lavie to assist in the investigation. Arisa and the crew of the Lavie go out in search and soon find RINZ and Yuka but do not tell the Trident. They allow the two safe-harbor on the Lavie while they figure out what is going on. At this point, Alex Werner arrives on the ship and begins to figure out what happened and how the Trident and FSF itself are involved. A battle ensues and Lars ship is disabled so he takes refuge on the Lavie whom manages to disable the Trident and make its way back to Earth.

Story Summary – Mission 2: Where ‘o Where Did Our Station Go?!

After arrival back at Earth no further questions are asked by the FSF as to the situation. Arisa is assigned to work with the President and her staff giving Alex Werner command of the Lavie. An engineer from ITC is assigned to care for RINZ and give him a body, a new medical officer is assigned to the ship, a new diplomatic officer is assigned to the ship along with a larger security detachment. Yuka agrees to help the new human form of RINZ learn about the human life. The crew soon makes its way to a planet requesting help but during the travel time crew members get to know each other better; specifically, the security staff mingle and train with each other, Yuka and RINZ experience food, love and Yuka is introduced to Lavie the ship’s AI. Jeane Dumont the ship’s Diplomat also helps Yuka through troubles in her life. A body is also acquired for Lavie and Jeane puts her in it. Upon arriving at the planet which requested help Yuka, Jeane, Kirin and the Chief Engineer at the time Mark Thorson are sent down to figure out what is going on. Yuka and Jeane find out that a town was being used for experiments. Kirin and Thorson are ambushed and Thorson is killed but Kirin figures out the people behind this conspiracy are trying to develop technology to enter subspace and bend time and space. Kirin destroys the object emitting the field to cause this effect dooming the people already trapped inside but stopping it from ever being used again. Upon debriefing the crew members down on the planet are recovered and the ship makes its way back to Earth. 

Story Summary – Mission 3: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

Sophie Archer takes command from Alex Werner when she is reassigned to command a Task Group. Dale Flint from Shadow Fire trains Yuka and Lavie on military conduct and AMC piloting. He also teaches Yuka combat skills. After this horrible training Yuka confides in Jeane more disappointed that RINZ has not been talking with her. Kirin and Sophie spar while waiting on the crews next assignment and Lavie rests after Dale’s training. Multiple crew members are also admitted to medical due to not sleeping for extended periods of time. During this time Jeane is also made the ships First Officer. The ship soon got its orders and began heading for a planet out on the Rim Colonies which send a distress signal but no other information. SAD also dispatched a dropship. A few weeks pass until the ship arrives at the planet. Upon arrival Yuka, Jeane and Lavie were sent by Sophie as an advance team to gather information. The girls arrive on the planet noticing that communication will be difficult and that the world is full of blizzardlike conditions. Lavie stays in the shuttle trying to figure out how to resolve the communication problems while Yuka and Jeane head out. They soon meet a Blacksmish who gives them transportation and gives Yuka a special rifle-blade type weapon like a gunblade. The girls soon head onward on their mission and encounter an empty blockade. In the blockade, Yuka finds a book that explains people have been acting oddly here and security forces have been trying to contain whatever is happening. At this point the girls meet Arianna Manomi from Shattered Stars; she is 3 years older and graduated Salmor Academy at this point now working for the SAD Fifth Response Unit. Ari confirms what they already know as her team was attacked upon arrival by people on the planet. Unknown identity mechs made their way toward the group and a battle begins. The group manages to succeed and withdrawal before more mechs could catch up to them but they were separated. Lavie makes her way in the shuttle back with Yuka whom had to be knocked unconscious due to her own stubbornness make their way back to the ship while Jeane and Ari continue retreating from the remaining enemies. Eventually with the help of Tyrone from security the team fought off the mecks and tanks defeating them but the question was still open as to why they attacked. The away team returns to the ship and power fails. Upon restoring power engineering was not able to find the reason for the power failure but the mission must go on so another team consisting of the Jeane, Yuka, Ross, Koto and Ari was sent down. They stay the night on the planet and begin searching for survivors in the morning. Yuka finds Sirus McCormick a university grad student living on the planet. He helps the away team figure out what happened and locate a government office where local security forces had apparently had a battle. One of the remaining living soldiers informs the away team of a ship crash site that they believe is the cause of all of the strange actions by people. The away team heads there after calling in for additional assistance; the ship sends another security team down and the away team along with their reinforcements reach a group of rioting civilians whom are holding the wreckage. The away team requests the rioters leave the area and a battle ensues. The battle ends in multiple casualties on the side of the rioters. The away team makes its way back to the ship in groups escorting rioters back to the ship and ensuring the area is secure.  

Story Summary - Mission 4: Winter Wonderland; the Land We Wish Was Not 

The next morning another team is sent down commanded by Yuka Layton and her team begins exploring the crashed ship to find a number of its crew in cryostasis. They rescue the crew only to find that snakes and some form of bugs had taken refuge in the ship; it had apparently been crashed for some time. After completing rescue operations a separate tactical unit is sent down to clean up the crashed ship only to be engaged by the creatures they had found on the ship... They had made it their nest and did not take to kindly to anyone interfering with that. The crew managed to escape the snake nest and the Lavie came down to finally kill off the enemy. Kirin's summon killed off the snakes and the crew would return to the ship. Sophie then contacted Yuka informing her that she would be taking command of the Lavie under the direction of Trinity Special Forces.  

Story Summary - Intermission 2: Take This and Call Me in the Morning 
The ship made its way to Deep Space 741 for repairs and to send all of the crew members off for a well deserved rest. Jeane Dumont requested transfer from the ship. Mimi Sorinson came on board the ship in hopes to find out more about Kirin but this only resulted in her being attacked. Lumiere (The Lavie's AI; now in human form) was also given a mech unit. Yuka and RINZ made their way to RINZ homeworld as Seth returned to his home being followed by Lumiere and other members of the crew went about their own leave activities.   
Yuka and RINZ arrive at RINZ home to find it completely destroyed and are then attacked by a production copy of RINZ. The two barely escape and return to DS741 with the assistance of another ship whom was bringing over crew transfers to the Lavie. Kirin stood trial for his previous actions and Yuka along with the ships security department were put through much needed training. Yuka also proposed to RINZ and they entered a Civil Partnership. The new Marine Commander of the ship Aidan began his task of teaching the crew and his men how to be more efficient while the others were trained or were on leave.  

Story Summary 2 
Narrated by: Yuka Layton

Strangely enough Lars was found inside of RINZ… Something to do with his original people… No idea about that though… We were granted permission to leave the station and so we headed out to go rescue an intel agent only to realize it was a trap… There was no intel agent… FSF attacks us and so we fight them and defeat the Tack Group they sent to fight us as well though good work on Aidan’s part we capture their commander and interrogate him after he requests amnesty through a loophole used for terrorists since he is not actually an enemy combatant. Aidan and I… start seeing each other…

After arriving back at Deep Space 741 we find it was taken over by FSF forces… They wanted to start a war I guess. We send RINZ off to rescue his people and wipe out the research facility where they were experimenting on them while we fight the entirety of the FSF forces at the station. With help of station security, we manage to retake the facility… Though the enemy commander… They somehow… Had Julian. Julian ends up being killed by station security in their attempt to subdue the enemy commander. 

Aidan and I grow closer as a result of this and we are summoned back to Earth… During our travel back RINZ and I reaffirm our commitment to help each other save the galaxy from FSF’s madness… Even if our marriage didn’t work that doesn’t mean we can’t be by each other’s side. Aidan and I also start dating too… We were just about to Earth when Jim Olend appears and he won’t leave me alone so after he attacks me for hitting him with the help of Lonhorn we subdue him and throw him in the brig. We arrive at Earth and before our meeting with Hukari Aidan and I go out on a date and we make a commitment to each other that we will save the world… Galaxy… whatever… Six months… It feels like years now… My life has changed so much in this short time… We now are going to meet with Hukari and rumor has it she is going to be giving us a larger ship to help make our goals in Trinity more attainable.

The New Universes: DFS Lavie (Eine Neue Reise Beginnt)
August 10th 4566 GST
Narrated by Yuka Layton

With how hot and heavy things get here this story could be mistaken for an ero novel… Sorry about that… So we arrived at Earth and were informed by Lady Hukari that we would be getting a new ship. RINZ told me that he had been offered a position as Ambassador for his people and that he had accepted the post because his people needed him. He then left us. I was also given shore leave while the crew moved things to the new ship. Persephone Larson a mercenary whom was hired by Faith Special Forces was sent to try to kill me but was unsuccessful thanks to my father Drew Layton’s intervention. Persephone was then hired by Hukari under my direction to see if she could be some use to us. She was assigned to protect me and Aidan and I went on a trip together. We got a dog and became engaged. Meanwhile Scott works to build a new weapon that can hopefully stop Jim and his meddling… Kirin also explores more of his past and he and Tyrone get in some target practice. After a fun few days Aidan, the crew and I were all recalled to the Lavie; early mind you (I wanted my week off) to deal with an emergent situation. At least I got a good hike in and… had a lot of fun. Back to the grind I guess… I hope Defender does not get us all killed…

Current Full Summary:

Narrated by: Yuka Layton

This whole strange adventure starts after I ended up in the “future”… The year 4566… I was approached by a recruiter with the Galactic Federation’s Delta Force and from there my life only gets weirder and weirder… I meet RINZ-00 a mech who I later find out is actually alive… Go figure; right? He and I go back to his home ship only to be told that we MUST enslave the populous to serve some screwed up galactic domination plot or something… Obviously we say no and so we run to hide in some asteroids… This is where the DFS Lavie comes in… The ship and its crew offer us safe harbor until this all is resolved. Long story short; it isn’t resolved because a fight ensues but the ship though the brilliant work of Alex Werner manages to escape back to Earth.

While on Earth no questions are asked and I was assigned to lead the Lavie’s non-existent mech battalion. The Lavie was then called to offer some help to a planet whose orbital station just… disappeared… Jeane Dumont; the ships new diplomat and soon to be First Officer and I were sent to investigate one end of the problem while Kirin Dragmawl; a time traveling Japanese warrior who can… summon… creatures from the… I think the depths of hell but… I don’t actually know where they come from… and Mark Thorson the ships normal Chief Engineer investigate the other. Jeane and I find out that the station disappearing is part of some experiment. Thorson is killed by Kirin finds the object they were using to conduct these experiments and… Well… He vaporizes it… This guy… he just piles up the bodies… He scares me…

Anyway when we get back to the ship the R&D Specialist whom is now Chief Engineer Scott Johnson gave Lavie (Lumiere) the ships then AI a human form (He did this to RINZ too… He is scary too). Since there was nothing more for us to do we left the planet and returned home. When we get back to Earth we get some new crew including Sophie Archer and Tyrone Johnson. We also learn more about our Security Chief Koto Kengori’s mad coffee addiction… How that is relevant to anything I don’t even know… Yeah… So our next “request for help” is from a planet full of snow and uh… It is far away… While traveling to this planet I get to know Jeane better. She and I actually become lovers… Tyrone, Koto and Kirin shoot things, conduct madness and generally just be… confusing… Actually… not just confusing absolutely insane… Almost as insane as the fact that our shuttle pilot is never seen or heard from… Lars… Where oh where are you… RINZ and I are the only ones who even know you exist to date I think…

We finally arrived at this… Snowy form of hell… Since we did not actually get anyone killed last mission Sophie Archer sends Jeane and I down with Lavie to scout things out and see what we are dealing with. Being lost we ask for directions and information from a guy who lives on this planet; Nedious Luminos. He gives us the services of his giant snow wolf with whom Jeane can talk named Adar and Ned gives me a new gun. Adar takes us to a broken-down police blockade where we meet with Arianna Manomi from the Citizen Welfare Ministry’s Special Armored Division. Think of them as the mech police for the planets so far out that no one from the actual government cares about them… DYSTOPIA MUCH! She tells us the people here are fucking insane and went all up in her face and wrecked her poor allies that she came with. Those same insane people attacked us and after Lavie knocked me unconscious and forcefully dragged me away to safety (>_>) we come back down with Tyrone and Kirin… Some enemies died… Simply put… We then return to the ship cause after such a fight… Yeah…

The next day after Jim Olend convinced me to convince the command staff to send us back down we start searching for survivors and meet Sirus McCormick… So dreamy… He is an ass though. He takes us to the local government office which is full of signs of a past battle and… more death… One of the only survivors gives us information on what happened and directs us to a crashed ship where rioters were… More death…

Notice a reoccurring theme… Too many people died… Anyway… Sophie puts me in charge of excavating the crashed ship and figuring out why everyone went all mad cause of it… We find some survivors from the crashed ship and… eh… conscript them… But… A wall of snakes and fun little critters who made this crashed ship their home don’t take too kindly to that so we have to run away. After running I meet an android who was stored in the mech pilot locker room called Chisa… Uh… Why would they just… Never mind… She joins the crew to help us and learn about humanity… Sounds like what Lumiere and RINZ are doing… I’m the only one who calls Lumiere by her name beh… Moving on so I stop going off on tangents… We go back down to the planet again to deal with the snakes and recover tools and stuff cause our ship got all messed up by some technology apocalypse that is happening… Well the snakes apparently had some giant mother snake or something cause I giant snake tried to eat RINZ and I as the wall of snakes consumes the away team. RINZ and I run back to the ship and prepare to get help sent. Then I meet our new mech pilot… Seth… He does not care about anything… Like seriously… Nothing someone could probably streak by him and he wouldn’t even care… The ship heads to help on the planet and Seth; thinking he can be all awesome tries to go save the day… Nope… RINZ has to save him from himself as the ship torpedoes poor snakes to hell and Kirin… kills more poor organisms… This guy seriously needs to stop murdering everything…

With a job “WELL” done we pick up whatever is left on the planet and leave preparing to head for repairs after that techno doom… And… President Hukari Carian or someone who works for her apparently like trolling me cause they want me to take COMMAND of a starship… How do you think I can do that… Even this summary is all disjointed… Eh… They do it anyway… So yeah… I’m captain now I guess and RINZ… went from being RINZ to being RINZ… This all is way too confusing for me… Please save me from this fucked up future please!?

The ship is now on the way to Deep Space 741 to get repaired and for the crew to take some time off. Meanwhile I get to read books for the next century… They said they can just put them in my head… Technology is still a thing even after an apocalypse apparently. So… time off… watch our fearless insane Dr. Hax Saw start forcing people to take some experimental pills or something… Oh wait… he already did that to me. I feel like the universe is trolling me by doing this too me but at least it is better than being all depressed over Julian leaving… Who would have thought they would make some twenty year old with mental issues who was once blind a Captain… Maybe they are really… really short handed?

We arrived at Deep Space 741 on what we thought was leave… Some people got time off but most of us had things to get done… Our Engineers worked with the Fleet Yards team to fix up the ship… RINZ and I decided to go to his homeworld only to find it destroyed. We fought a RINZ copy and I barely saved us from being killed because RINZ wanted to stay and fight. Getting away from the enemy after extreme damage to RINZ I called for help. A Federation ship rescued us and went back to the station. At about this time Seth and Lumiere went to go see his master… A short time passes while they train me up to take over the ship and RINZ learns how to better himself… Kirin also was arrested for his past actions.

Kirin was released and his powers sealed only to be unlocked by me. On the ship that brought RINZ and I back a marine detachment was assigned to the ship… The leader of this team Marine Captain Aidan Thornton. Strangely enough Lars was found inside of RINZ… Something to do with his original people… No idea about that though… We were granted permission to leave the station and so we headed out to go rescue an intel agent only to realize it was a trap… There was no intel agent… FSF attacks us and so we fight them and defeat the Tack Group they sent to fight us as well though good work on Aidan’s part we capture their commander and interrogate him after he requests amnesty through a loophole used for terrorists since he is not actually an enemy combatant. Aidan and I… start seeing each other…

After arriving back at Deep Space 741 we find it was taken over by FSF forces… They wanted to start a war I guess. We send RINZ off to rescue his people and wipe out the research facility where they were experimenting on them while we fight the entirety of the FSF forces at the station. With help of station security, we manage to retake the facility… Though the enemy commander… They somehow… Had Julian. Julian ends up being killed by station security in their attempt to subdue the enemy commander.

Aidan and I grow closer as a result of this and we are summoned back to Earth… During our travel back RINZ and I reaffirm our commitment to help each other save the galaxy from FSF’s madness… Even if our marriage didn’t work that doesn’t mean we can’t be by each other’s side. Aidan and I also start dating too… We were just about to Earth when Jim Olend appears and he won’t leave me alone so after he attacks me for hitting him with the help of Lonhorn we subdue him and throw him in the brig. We arrive at Earth and before our meeting with Hukari Aidan and I go out on a date and we make a commitment to each other that we will save the world… Galaxy… whatever… Six months… It feels like years now… My life has changed so much in this short time… We now are going to meet with Hukari and rumor has it she is going to be giving us a larger ship to help make our goals in Trinity more attainable.

The New Universes: DFS Lavie Mission 6; Part 2: What it is to be Human August 12th 4566 1630 Narrated by Lumiere Trouve

Life is said to be something only Humans and other living beings can experience and yet we have advanced so far that even “things” like me can become part of that which is “life”. I am now as living as everyone else and though I am still learning about life as with everyone in the military I have a duty to defend my comrades in arms; it just so happens on this mission I am also the best suited for this because I am the most like those whom we are currently intertwined.

Following the events on our return to Earth, Yuka and Aidan meeting Persephone Larson and the crews albeit forced departure with Sakura Carain still on board the ship made its way toward a world which was under the control of an artificial intelligence known as Candy whom had taken over the world following the abuse by her Human handlers believing that she and her compatriots were superior to Humanity.

While in transit the ship was met by a Watchers ship which was being sent to help deal with Kirin’s past, James Olend and technology that was being created that was too powerful. The Watchers sent over Misaki Hiroki. While she investigated Kirin and helped him to adjust to being a normal human following his powers being sealed the ship responded to a distress call from a Earth cargo ship and rendered aide to it. The Lavie would then meet with Lonhorn Security ships who provided us with two new crew members (Ari Mizriki and Brandon MacCloud) and intelligence on the world the group would be heading to. It was then that the FSF staged a sneak attack and killed the supporting ships from Lonhorn doing severe damage to the Lavie as a result.

When we finally reached the world which they had changed the name of to New Soong Yuka opened a dialogue with the world at the direction of Sakura, Sarissa, Aidan and Koto though Candy had other plans and sent up an android; one of the worlds former administrators as a trap. When he was to be sent back I tried to play along with their games as I look similar to Candy’s avatar form but I miscalculated though I was still able to negotiate. Now we will be working with them to stop FSF and hopefully bring peace…

The New Universes: DFS Lavie August 24 4566 Intermission 3: A Time for Laying Out the Future Narrated by Kiyoko Ino

Lt. Trouve was pulled from the negotiations and Defender the mecha unit piloted by Capt. Layton was sent with Nicklas to negotiate; the machine did so successfully by negotiating from a combat and tactical prospective. Upon returning to the ship the repairs continued and the crew got ready to leave the New Song Colony. Meanwhile Lt. Martinez was recalled to Delta Force Command to be another member of the pilot program where young commanders command new ships; he was put in command of the DFS Phoenix the former ship of Jim Olend whom they would be transporting with the DFS Radius to meet with the Lavie. During these repairs and preparations, a number of things happened in the crew which I will cover next…

So Lt. Martinez, myself and others arrived on the Lavie to help reinforce the lost crew whom died during the battle with FSF. Following this a Delta Force Intelligence ship arrived and dropped Cameron Ward, Emily Quartermaine and their intel team to further supplement the crew. If only father assigned Hikaru here…

The Captain soon reunites with Emily whom is a past lover of hers and they get into a rather sticky situation with the XO. It all ends well though aside from lots of guilt and drama. Cameron also takes time to get to know Sakura Carain whom accepted a permanent role on the Lavie as the ship’s Second Officer and AMC Division Commander (basically she’s my boss). Lt. Trouve also helps Nicklas confront some internal demons and find a purpose for himself. Once we go to meet the Radius a number of the ship’s crew will also be transferred out and replaced Maybe Hikaru will join us there… thought I doubt it; father was pretty pissed when he found out what we did. We will be taking Jim Olend back to EU Command in that strange mansion in space; I have only heard legends of it… Didn’t think such a thing actually existed but it is probably shielded or something from the vacuum of space making it so people can actually be there… After all those folks can pretty much do whatever they want.