Just a thing I came up with on the fly listening to some music. It related to the theme of "Remembering" within my now-eleven year old hobby writing project; it depicts a nameless person who may be talking to themselves, or perhaps this is a note they wrote. Maybe a thought? Maybe something scrawled on a wall. Who can ever know?

The background theme is some nameless battle in a forgettable location, but one the person still remembers vividly, even if they don't offer many details. The simple things are what matters, the memory of the battlefield, so much omitted yet the implication that it carries more meaning between them and the intended recipient, the subject, than you can ever appreciate.

I was tempted to make it a bit more specific, detailed, but I know it's actually a fault of mine, being too detailed. Plus, in this format, it appeals to people who have no idea of the details of my project, have no idea what concepts such as an "Indigo Tremor," "The GDA" or "The UUG" are. Less is more, after all. All memory is, is a bookmark of sorts, a handful of 'keywords', that reconstructs the scattered bits of the past into an image in your mind's eye of what memories still remain of the thing, place, event. The smallest, the simplest thing can trigger remembering. A song you once listened to faithfully, like clockwork, doing a specific thing or going a certain place. A smell, associated with something. A certain way a person can smile, reminding you of someone you once knew, even.

The word "Remember" is capitalized in all cases, relevant to "The GDA," a governing body whose motto in-canon is "Remember 2014. Remember the Fallen." I'll attempt to offer some backstory without bursting skulls here:

The planet known to purestrain Humanity as "Earth" is ever so astronomically slightly detached from the regular flow of time, existing in a state of partial compression- there exists Earth Standard Time and Universal Accepted Time. 2014 on Earth is a date relevant to the plot of the Saga (which takes place elsewhere at that time) but the second half, "Remember the Fallen" is the original battle cry- relating to the Fallen First, a special unit within the "Global Defence Army" that long, long ago, at their inception, suffered from a total massacre on an airless moon at the hands of their prototype, and were revived, with great difficulty. At their peak, they numbered thirty million strong, but as of 2014 EAT, they number only 22,250, with millions failing to revive or only having the will to stand up to watch their savior and give him the hope he needed, before falling, lifeless, once again, and their number gradually dwindling to the attrition of war- for a near-indestructable living weapon, that is.

But these weapons were the might of the former Empire, and with their numbers shattered- and eventually, defected- the Empire began a slow, slow decline it never recovered from. But even billions of years later, in the splinter group known as the GDA, the event is still remembered, and is one of the most powerful events in their history.

The theme of "Remembrance" is a powerful one- the GDA wages war on the United Universal Government, pushing them to the edge of annihilation before they (the UUG) remember who the GDA was- a splinter group of the old Empire, a group who less than a thousand Earth years ago lost over half of their number in the final battle against that Empire and had turned inwards and shut themselves out from the rest of the Universe ever since- but it was too late. They'd Remembered, something very dear to the GDA, but it was too little too late. But they could still die with that memory close at heart if they so chose, as death rained on their last bastion- the ill-named planet of Hope.

But somewhere between here and there, a battle took place. On a forgotten world in a nameless ruin. And in it, two souls connected. Turned against what they once represented and ran away to become what they stood for. The two that should not have been, became one. And then at some point became two again, separated by necessity. And the one we see here, simply hopes, believes, their other half still Remembers.

The narrator is of the GDA- an entity that values Remembering above much else. Their counterpart, of the UUG, an entity that Forgot. The narrator, at one point, Forgot, knocked unconscious at some point, while their other half Remembered in their stead, and so they switched once again. Neither is fully a part of what they once were, but now a bit of each other's dogma. A quaint, unspoken blending of cultures that has forged a bond that stellar distance cannot sever.


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As a mostly unrelated note, I think I'll actually go out on a limb and dedicate this for once.

So without further ado:

To Ron Ron. May you rest happily wherever it is your little playful soul wandered off to in your sleep.