<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/b/b7/CmdrNomuraMacross2032JPG.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Commander Nomura<br/><strong>Date:</strong>Flashback - March 10, 2032<br/><strong>Location:</strong>The Park<br/><strong>With:</strong>T'chak, Open<br/><hr/>The commander nodded his thanks as the music box was held closer to him. He took another lungful of smoke before he closed his eyes and just listened. Halfway through the music he briefly opened his eyes again for a last drag on his cigarette, before he stubbed it out in an earthy patch by a tree root. He sat like that for several seconds after the last notes had drifted off.<br/><br/>"Thank you." Nomura opened his eyes fully and bowed his head at the giant before him. "Debussy,  if I'm not mistaken."<br/><br/>Looking around he could spot no wastebasket nearby. Of course there was never one when you needed it. He got his cigarettes out again and pulled the cellophane warp from it, dropped his cigarette stub into the impromptu clear bag, wrapped it tight and put it into one of his pockets.<br/><br/>He leaned back against a birch behind him and his eyes strayed upward, studying the faux sky and the holographic clouds through the leaves. "Beautiful day, isn't it? About the only thing missing are some birds," he remarked to no one in particular. Birds were indeed missing from the park, as were  insects. No one had ever thought it worth the effort to import enough animals to turn the park into a true ecosystem. Balancing out all the creatures that would have to go into the effort for a self-sustaining ecology was no easy feat, and keeping the creatures from getting into places they were not supposed to would have been a major task too.