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Overview: This Part explains the economic hardship faced by the Raven Organization and its subsidiaries, which is at this point an internationally cooperated organisation, as a result of the 4th Arc War, with Bark troops heavily bombing Boston Labs campus in the State of Cho in 1991 and the Council of Entropy Corporate Tower in Howlton City and Kyiv in 1992. Alexis and Filian fought in the wars together and directly with Raven Organisation (Kyiv herself) instead of the Council against the Barkand National Army in both the Murkatinnya front and later the Howlton front together with the Velionan troops during their grand naval invasion in 1994-1995. After Howlton City had stopped getting besieged, the remaining Raven Organisation, which relocated to Veliona during the war, came back to restart operations in Howlton City together with Veliona, Murkatinnya, South Mewland as well as support from the most of the Northland Countries: Mykolos Democratic Republic, Pirgusion Federation, Republic of Welon’o and the Mylesian Federation. In 1996, during the final year of Arc War 4, the Howlton Government began to pivot its military attention away from Barkand (as they were winning) to providing military tech support for the Raven Organisation, even providing funding for Filian and Alexis.
Plot (summary and high-level overview): The story initially follows the Fischer family with Ilyas Fischer II in 1975. After a conference meeting with the Government of Howlton as a special guest, he was subsequently taken to the President’s office to privately meet up with the Howlton President, Kenzo Siegfried. Thinking he was going to be discussing politics, Kenzo instead approached him about his lineage, and because of his lineage, how he would be able to assist him and the Raven Organization with the eventual defence of Arc Planet. At the time, the RO and its subsidiaries were working together to build a comprehensive satellite system as part of the Cold War with the United Pact, as well as developing space weapons to tackle foreign space invaders. During his time in the RO, he was assigned to Boston Labs to research into the manipulation of Space-time, and was tasked to examine Kenzo’s Core of Spacetime. He frequently brought his young daughter, Filian to his workplace where she developed a mild curiosity.
Fast forward 14 years to 1989, Ilyas II had already retired by this point. After managing to briefly splice open spacetime in their laboratory in the Boston Labs (State of Cho), Filian began thinking of turning to the operations department (Council of Entropy) and spreading the knowledge. Although initially met with some resistance by the Boston Labs team, she was allowed to train in combat with the Council of Entropy while sharing the methodology to open space-time with fellow valkyries. Filian was met with harsh criticism from many of the valkyries in operation at the time, saying that it was impossible and only able to be done via a laboratory with access to high amounts of elemental energy. However, a young and new valkyrie, Alexis Barker, listened to her and offered to train with her.
As a result of joining the Council, Filian was put onto the latest and newest batch of valkyries, together with Alexis. During most of their careers, Filian and Alexis hardly made contact, being placed in different teams. Alexis trained in the State of Cho, alongside the local Murk military, while Filian worked alongside the Howt military. During their careers, they learned to handle heavy weapons as well as hand-to-hand combat.
The next time they crossed paths was when they were put on the same space mission to operate on the Raven Organization’s Pulsar III spacecraft as part of their training in 1990. However, the start of Arc War IV would cause them to return back to Howlton, cutting their training very short.
They were deployed to Lion City, Singapore State for a briefing. Intel was received that both the People’s Republic of Barkand and the People’s Republic of Mewland were planning to invade Slovia, right at the border, as part of Operation Jenga.