[B]Zane Decker[/b]

Zane wandered the Expo grounds in his uniform rather than the more comfortable civilian clothes. He had been on duty at the Jaunde exhibit for much of the morning and his superiors, knowing what he was like when left to his own devices had issued an order to remain in uniform. Zane had to admit the order was given to all Jaunde military personel but he couldn't shake the feeling that his superior had been emphasising the order specifically for him. not that it bugged him too much, afterall he was far from the only soldier in uniform today during their free time.

Those at the Jaunde compound had been eager to make a good showing today to help aliviate the fears of the city populace, not that it suprised Zane, the same thing was done in Jaunde during the war in order to keep the peoples spirits up. It wouldn't have surpised Zane at all if it had been someone from the Jaunde compound that had suggested the idea to the powers in charge of New Anaheim in the first place. Not that it mattered who's idea it had been the important part was that it appeared to be working.

Zane had kept his attention of the Mobile Suits on display and the supporting vendors. The majority of nations utilised humanoid suits he realised as he saw very few that deviated from the design it actually surprised him a little. As a pilot of a quadurped design the speed and agility he felt was unmatched, something he valued highly in any mobile vehicle. He had heard the engineers in Jaunde had a new prototype based on the BuCUE's design in testing but had not had the time to get it to New Anaheim in time for the expo. A shame, Zane would hae liked to have seen it here. While Jaunde was only a single city they were prodly displaying the few BuCUE's stored at the compund including Zane's which still bore a few carbon scoring marks on its armour from the battle a month ago. They also had a few of Jaunde's Mobile Armour units there that had been brought up just for the occasion, while somewhat less impressive the Jaunde delegation in the city was not going to leave them out just becuse they didn't match the same performance statistics as most factions suits. The one thing all of Jaunde's display had in common however Zane had realised was that with the exception of the BuCUE's beam sabers all weapons technology was at least a generation behind the majority of the other factions. 

This was particularly noticeable in Zane mind as he entered the area of the Expo that held the Sandegist kingdoms forces. Thier Rustungs had an impresive arsenal available to them though while they were also confined to the ground like Jaunde's BuCUEs Zane estimated a BuCUE would be capable of running circles around a Rustung which put Zane in mind of an old earth cartoon about a flightless bird and a dog of some kind. [i]'One cant kill what they cant catch afterall'[/i] Zane thought as he stopped and grinned up at the hulking figure of one of the Rustungs.