Temporary Seperation

Ritterburg Brightlight Primary school, graduation day.

"So it's time for us to go our own ways now...."

"Don't be so sentimental like that Valerius, we will gather again soon, we have our grand plan after all."

"Even so this still make me sad Tiesto, everytime i went to my Family Gathering i found out other kids our age are so.....boring? Only when i'm with you guys i can find excitements."

"Hehehe, it's all because of Kira, when i told my family about our dreams and future plans, they all looked at me like i am crazy, and they started to say how that's impossible and i should have more realistic goal."

"Yours too Mikael? My parents are the same, they wanted me to focus on training to become a good pilot then enlist and slowly raise the rank in the Mech Corp."

"Tsk, so do ours, they only wanted us to stay cannon fodders for the Cavendish main house. All the glories and prestige will only go to them."

"They are still our family, brother. Stay low-key for now and make use of what they give us. Like Kira always say: There is no useless resources."

"Oh, my parents cheering me on though, they told me that to become a great scientist one need to have ambitions to do things others never think about before."

"Ohhhhhhhh, my grandfather is the same too, he told me i need great drives and ambitions if i ever want to become as Mech Designer. He also told me the reason my father can't advanced further than Apprentice Mech Designer is because he doesn't have enough drives to realize his design philosophy."

Looking at the kids talking, Kira has to facepalm himself

'Did i corrupting them too much? They are too abnormal compare to other kids their age.... Well, at least they have proper plans for future now and no longer wasting their time on useless distractions.'

"So what are you all planning to do? I'm going to attend Auxilia Pilot School which affiliated to the 4th Auxilia Hunter, then i'm going to attend Rittersberg University of Technology to get my Mech Designer certificate. After that, i will start necessary works toward our plan."

"Errrrr, i can understand Auxilia Pilot School since your family is closely related. But why Rittersberg University of Technology? with your grade you can easily get into any of the first rate institutions of our state like Ansel University of Mech Design, i planned to go there since my grandfather is a Honorary Professor and occassionaly held lessons there."

"Because it is such an average institution that i chose to attend there, i only need to have some systematic learning about code of conducts and standard etiquette of Mech Industy, if i need better learning materials i can just come to my grandfather George Ainsworth, last time i met him he was bragging about advancing to Senior Mech Designer soon, learning under him is much better than attending any schools. The courses in RUT are also more lax, i think i can rush the graduation in 2 or 3 years and start our plan sooner. And of course, the biggest reason is to scout for more potential recruits. Those students from prestigious in institutions usually have high pride and most of them already have their future secured, it will be much harder for us to recruit them. You can try to do some recruit when you attend Ansel, Kron. The same to you all, let's try to recruits as many as possible to join our cause."

"Me, Patrick and Patricia will join Cavendish Pilot Academy, it's a institution created by the Cavendish to train our families mech pilots as well as those working for the Cavendish, graduate pilots here will then recruited by Mech Regiments affiliated to the Cavendish or the Cavendish's private forces."

"Heh, so that's one of the reasons the Cavendish can keep their dominance presence in the Mech Corp. Well, we are not that much different, we are going to join schools affiliated to our Families too."

"It's time to say goodbye for now. We will stay in touch via The Ambitious Collective, if you can find new recruits do remember to add them to TAC too."

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Larkinson Family Compound, few hours later.

Ever since he transmigrated to this universe Kira already visited this place a few times on occasions like New Year Celebrations or summer vacations, he made acquaintance with many Larkinsons including the protagonist Ves Larkinson and some notable characters like Melinda and Melkor, but to avoid changing anything to the plot, Kira keep his interaction with them to the minimum. Turned out Ves is younger than him by 2 years.

'The author never clarified any concrete timelines so I have to estimate the time for any events to occur. At least now I can have more accurate estimations. The most important one is Ves' 30th birthday day then the Sand War will happen few years later while the next Bright-Vespa will happen 2-3 years prior. He is 8 years old now, so I will have at most 20 years to complete the first phase of my plan.'

"You have 2 months of vacation before starting your new school, do you have any plans yet? Hoho, If not then spend more time with this old man, I misses my grandson so much. Hoho."

"Sure grandfather Jonathan, i'd love to, but next week I'll need to spend sometime with the Ainsworth."

"Right, you should do that, that old man George really dotted on you, hoho."

"Don't you have some works for the Larkinson Orphans Committee now?"

"Ah, I forget about time whenever I'm with my grandsons, Hoho. I'll see you kids tomorrow, this time we decided to do something special, Hoho."

"Yes grandfather, I'll go get some rest now."

As a military dynasty that's been fighting and bleeding for the Bright Republic ever since it's founding, the numbers of war heroes and veterans of their Larkinson are astounding. Every years, there are many Larkinsons retiring from all branches of services of the Bright Republic, but it's the Bright-Vesia war that happen every 30 years and last from 5 to 10 years that brought about the most casualties and that mean many Larkinson kids lost their parents and their immediate families. To care for all of these orphans, the Larkinson created the Orphan Committee to provide accommodations for them till they turn eighteenth with the accommodations range from daily needs, tuitions, learnings, trainings and works, and like most Larkinson, most of them chose to enlist.

As the youngest of this batch of orphans from the Bright-Vesia war 10 years ago, Kira Larkinson is also the last to have his genetic aptitude test. This batch of Larkinson somehow have astonishing ratio of potentates, out of 62 kids, there are 47 that have the right genetic aptitude, range from grade C to B, with Kira's closest cousin Athrun at B+.

'Even though I knew the Larkinson have special genes that make them have higher chance to possess right aptitude but this is ridiculously when compare to humanity average ratio of 3.5%. Over the last 4 years I have been painstakingly socialite them, from inviting them to my Steel Blood Orphans social network to indoctrinate them toward my plan.'

'It was really hard to change their mindsets of servitude toward the Bright Republic, especially when other older Larkinson keep spouting about servicing and tradition, no wonder they can give birth to such stupid jerk like Ghanso Larkinson.'

'Those couldn't become potentates already convinced to take up schools and lessons related to Mech Design and Services, even if they couldn't become mech designers they could become fabricators or technicians. With them and those from Brightlight I already have my core personnel, I only need to keep providing them guides from now on.'