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"Baby Series 3"Written By: Karina Rating: PG Spoilers: None Disclaimer: I don’t own Gundam Wing or the Characters from the series but the baby is mine. Pairing: Quatre + Milliardo + Trowa Notes: Challenge 152. Baby Series 3 #230. Takes place immediately following To Survive Here. Many thanks to ShenLong for her work betaing
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Future Designs Quatre frowned. "I don't understand you. You just said technology was not the way for Sanc, but you are investing every resource into the construction of a power station." "A station that will provide much needed employment in its construction, and later in its operation for those who choose to live in the city and surrounding area. It will boost the economy and provide Sanc with the power to move forward. I intend to locate and renovate the subway that has been closed for more than a hundred years. With the subway restored storms will not again bring the city to its knees. For that to happen I need additional power. When complete the power station will provide more power than Sanc requires and that excess we can export. Instead of buying our power from neighbouring countries we will provide it to them." "The power station is your version of heavy industry?" "In effect, yes. It is sustainable industry, a hydro powered station that will service the country. In each of the major villages throughout Sanc I want a feed station to provide power to the surrounding area. Much of the infrastructure is already in place, courtesy of the Occupation. It requires only upgrading and maintaining and properly trained technicians to do the work. The Alliance occupation allowed much of the infrastructure to the outlying areas to degrade in later years; they had no use for the people who hid in the hills and thought it would force them out. The people merely fell back on traditional methods of living and outstayed the Alliance." "I see." And Trowa thought that maybe Quatre was beginning to see. He was colony bred and what was more, he was from one of the wealthiest colony families. Colony life was far from the life lived by those born and reared on Earth. He had no idea, really, how the people of Earth lived. For that matter, Trowa mused, neither did he. They should be grateful to Milliardo for instructing them on how it was in Sanc and use the lesson to best effect. "Eventually there will be major upgrading of educational facilities throughout the outer regions, and those facilities will focus on what is needed to improve life in the local community. Crop production, animal husbandry, farming techniques that do not strip Sanc of its precious topsoil. Aquaculture is little used in Sanc and if there is one thing we have it is water. Farmers whose land can do little more than sustain their own families needs, will learn to produce a crop they can sell." "You… I…" Milliardo grinned. "Sanc is grateful for the assistance you have offered us, Quatre. Have no doubt of that. It is why I want your help to move on with improving life in general here. You have helped those who live in the city and the immediate area, and I think it is about time you and I had a long talk about the needs of those outside of the district. Not everyone wishes to become bound to city life. We need to go on a Progress and in that way you can see for yourself what needs to be done and how those who live where they do, do so because they want to, not because there is no other place for them. Those `grass huts' of yours might be a surprise. Some of the villages look much as they did in the 13th and 14th centuries. It is a tourist bonanza, but it must be handled with care. The Occupation did not endear the local inhabitants to outsiders in general and trust must be rebuilt. They follow the old traditions in the mountains and many of them are quite pagan in their beliefs. I don't intend for them to feel threatened when they are just starting to believe they have their freedom back." ~ * ~ |
