Ten - Flight - Private
Jul. 1st, 2010 11:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chili_saucedCagalli had effectively cut herself off from most of the GDF while she straightened things out in Orb - or tried to anyways. However, her utter failure in battle, coupled with an alliance that she doesn't want and doesn't have the charisma to work her way out of, has taken its toll on her. And now... the news hasn't gone public yet, but she's set to be married - to Yuna Roma Seiran of all people. She cursed her luck, and the archaic system that got her into it.
Her options were few, in the political climate of Orb. If she remained, her power would be chipped away at by an arranged marriage into the Seiran family, and she had little remaining influence to stand on her own if she refused to marry him. She could flee to the GDF, they'd certainly take her in and she had more than enough friends... but she couldn't focus on their mission while Orb was in such a state, and she didn't want to ever again be in a position where firing on Orb troops was the best solution.
But then... if she fled independently, would the people see her as a coward, or a rightful ruler forced into hiding? She could fight on her own terms, make Orb's treaty unattractive by interfering with their 'guardians' while not fighting them directly, and when she returned... she would be loved or hated, probably both but nothing in between. An all-or-nothing gamble, the sort of decision that the GDF had saved the world on in the past.
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Reports were slow to reach even the ears of important politicians and officials, and will likely be slower to reach the public outside of Orb, but many of those who most strongly supported the treaty didn't bat an eye when Chief Representative Cagalli Yula Atha was determined to be missing from Orb entirely.
Her options were few, in the political climate of Orb. If she remained, her power would be chipped away at by an arranged marriage into the Seiran family, and she had little remaining influence to stand on her own if she refused to marry him. She could flee to the GDF, they'd certainly take her in and she had more than enough friends... but she couldn't focus on their mission while Orb was in such a state, and she didn't want to ever again be in a position where firing on Orb troops was the best solution.
But then... if she fled independently, would the people see her as a coward, or a rightful ruler forced into hiding? She could fight on her own terms, make Orb's treaty unattractive by interfering with their 'guardians' while not fighting them directly, and when she returned... she would be loved or hated, probably both but nothing in between. An all-or-nothing gamble, the sort of decision that the GDF had saved the world on in the past.
...
Reports were slow to reach even the ears of important politicians and officials, and will likely be slower to reach the public outside of Orb, but many of those who most strongly supported the treaty didn't bat an eye when Chief Representative Cagalli Yula Atha was determined to be missing from Orb entirely.
