The Next Post Is Delayed

As stated above, the next episode of AIC will be posponed to the 17th due to unavoidable business travels. It was irresistable...if i am lucky, i might be able to find new and interesting shooting scenes for the future episodes. I am sorry. Please continue your support!



...maybe i will amend myself with a double special episode?

The Enforcer and The King

Halfy: I was a young lad when I first served the 3001th King of Utopia. The nation had been ravaged by war and conquest for almost as long as 400 years during the reign of previous kings…

Lutherniel: The Utopian Federation had expanded greatly during these 400 years of period. They won territories, dismissed enemies and gain allies.

Halfy: The strong perished under the might of the utopian army, while the weak…heh, they decided to be friend and avoid being completely annihilated.

Min: …are you saying that Avalon Industries are one of those coward nations that kneel down to Utopia?

Silver: Easy Min…we don’t want to create any fuss around here.

Halfy: You got some attitude there lady…by the way, the 3001th King of Utopia; my King…the great King Panthera decided to end this bloodshed and introduced a new type of world conquest; ones that cost no lives but still positioned the Utopian Federation as a formidable nation in the face of the planet.

Alonqexe: Which is?

Lutherniel: Commerce…King Panthera introduced commerce 30 years back and it helped the nation to be one of the strongest economical power on the world map.

Halfy: His majesty may act at his own personal belief that war and plunder brings nothing but death and sorrows to the Utopian people. So he decided to strengthen the Utopian Federation through other peaceful method…ironically, it helped much in contributing to our situation right now.

Min: How could such good deed can be the doomed of Utopia? This is nonsense!

Halfy: It’s called fate my lady. It might not be fair, but everything we do today will eventually undo us tomorrow. King Panthera had good intention for his people…the timing and the outcome however, are against him.

Lutherniel: He’s out of luck?

Halfy: King Panthera started to establish trading facilities, ports and harbors; encouraging both Nobles and Commoners to participate in trades. The King starts to build relationships and winning the hearts of other nations; convincing the world that the Utopian Federation had diminished its warlike culture and open its door to foreigners.

Silver: Well, that is good. I don’t see why such goodwill will mark the solemn hour of Utopia.

Halfy: The nation did flourished. The grand and luxuries that you witness at the beginning of the spaceport into the majestic buildings of the utopian Federation Metropolitan bears witness to the success of King Pantheras new economic reforms. However with it comes resistance from the more conservative group of the utopian community.

Lutherniel: The Nobles, who couldn’t adapt and adjust themselves from the warring era of Utopia…

Halfy: Correct…for thousands of generations these hardcore traditional nobles had earned their living and gained wealth and status throughout plundering and gained recognitions during wartime. When King Panthera refuses to continue this violent practice, these nobles had almost nothing to do….and when the king started to introduce commerce; they had trouble adapting.

Alonqexe: Much like the samurai’s during the Meiji era…

Lutherniel: Who..?

Alonqexe: Some old lost nation civilizations…nevermind.

Halfy: To make matters worse, the commoners had been tremendously successful and reap the most rewards from King Panthera’s economic reforms. During the warlike period of Utopia, these commoners did little too small trade amongst themselves…a few had been successfully ventured outside of Utopia and become the linking merchants between this nation and the world outside. The numbers however are scarce…because most of the time, when the utopian nobles decided to do battle, the commoners will be conscripted and absorbed into the Utopian Military Forces.

Alonqexe: So there is some kind of friction in terms of views towards King Panthera’s vision for the Utopian Federation…

Halfy: …the rapid economic growth had change the face of utopia completely. The Utopian Federation had been moving towards modernization. King Panthera had been recognized as the King who brought new blessings to its people. The old fashioned Utopian lords had no say. Obviously, the king had the people full support thanks to his majesty plans of making Utopia one of the biggest economic giant in the world.

Lutherniel: Not to be corny or sarcastic but…the conservative lords, they could just get rid of King Panthera by assassination or any other similar ways.

Min: That would be too obvious. Such plots are keen to backfired and on top of that, we are going to see the commoners starting the people’s revolution much earlier than what we are facing today.

Silver: The nobles can’t do much without the commoners, can they?

Alonqexe: Looks like it…so then what happen. How these whole events do relates down to Queen Rasa being a failure in comparison to his predecessor King Panthera?

Halfy: Queen Rasa succeeded the throne despite the fact that it is against her own will.

Min: Enough! Halfy, I assumed that you had reliable resources for these arguments that you are laying in front of us tonight. As a matter of fact, to tell you the truth…it’s kinda hard to chew.

Lutherniel: Give us one good reason why we should take your words as a major bluff…

San Ji Q: Because he is the former Hoofdcommissaris for the Utopian Federation Special Police Force.

Lutherniel: Who the hell....

Silver: Senior Master San Ji!

Min: You came here to join us?

Whoammy: Senior Master should be in Badlands...right?

Halfy: Dear me…seems like someone is doing their homework.

San Ji Q: …and someone had been messing around playing late night story telling with a bunch of kids again. Beat it Halfy, your glorious old days are over.

Alonqexe: So…what else is new around here...

San Ji Q: That he’s specially assigned as the personal bodyguard of the Utopian ruler…resigned but somehow came back into office a few days after the beginning of this Utopian crisis.

Halfy: Thank you for blowing my identities in front of my face.

San Ji Q: WAS…not anymore.

Alonqexe: Wow! …that’s amazing!

Lutherniel: A police commissioner? We so gonna sleep in jail tonight…

Halfy: Thank You...

TO BE CONTINUED...

SPECIAL INTERVIEW: TAILGUNNER

In keeping the “AIC Interview” tradition going, we decided to take a little break from the AIC Chronicles and had a little chat with Tailgunner, sharing his views on the project and what makes he do it. (This includes some interesting-non-related questions to keep the whole session interesting!)

Reporter: First of all, tell us a bit of your experience in AIC Forum?


Tailgunner: Rose brought me in and was saying to myself “Man…not another one of those forums again...” I had been to millions of forum and at that particular time I could take another bite. Ironically, in the end I find out that it’s quite a nice place to be. People are nicer and less dissing each other. No one tries to be too smart or an ego tripper.


Reporter: What’s factor was lacking in AIC?


Tailgunner: Crowds, but in the end I don’t care much about the numbers. AIC is like a small sidewalk restaurant, there are not a lot of people around but you sure catch the same old regulars. The problem AIC however, is that it was at the final era of foruming. Some of the forum that still survives today was due to its solid goals on why the forum was made in the first place and a steady mainstream of audience. Last night I stumble upon a World War II forum. The war veterans and military enthusiast hangs out a lot at that place. AIC ended not because of some tragic unpopularity or simply abandoned, the members had a major transition in their lives and decided that foruming took too much of a time for them. Speaking about my own self, I was at the brink of taking my first step in establishing my own business at that period so….I was ON and OFF from AIC.


Reporter: about AIC CHRONICLES, what triggers you to start on the project?


Tailgunner: The timing was bad but the elements and resources were there. I overheard Rose mentioning that Tangerine was making AIC forumers dolls out of Max Factory Figma figurines, and at the same time the basic for the AIC CHRONICLES script was based upon the AIC forum fan fictions mixed in with the AIC Signature War, a little forum games that the AIC forumers used to play back then…the only think the DPS considered as a task was an extra one or two scenes and events in order to link these fan fiction together.

Reporter: How do you organize the workload amongst your DPS members?

Tailgunner: Everybody get to choose part where they enjoy making the most. I was in charge of the photo shoot since my work involves travelling around and taking pictures of industrial sites. So there is an element of work and play and vice versa there…Uruzu did the Vehicles, Crafts and other mechanical related areas of the story since she was so into these kinds of things. Tangerine does the soundtracks, Nyneve do the script in which interlinks with Silver and Kluang’s fan fiction. The final work for the week will be proofreading that was conducted by Wizard of Aus via E-mail.


Reporter: Did Rose participate in the project, after she had that unfortunate car accident?


Tailgunner: One or two small parts of the project. The whole blog skin and banners was her idea apart from doing the HTML coding for us. After she had her accident on the road a couple of week’s back we decided that we should not burdened her with so much work.

Reporter: The AIC CHRONICLES was supposed to be delayed from its original date somewhere early July and was rescheduled to August. Somewhere in between you decided to go on with the original date and instead of being postponed to a month time the AIC CHRONICLES was a few days late. What made you took that decision to go on with the project anyway even though you are not ready with it?

Tailgunner: The delay at first was due to damages done to some of the Figma figures in between delivery process from China to Malaysia. We reported 4 of the figures, to our horror 3 of them are the main cast needs to be rebuild from scratch again using materials greatly differs from the original. That takes much of our time, creating delays for us. The figures were reconstructed by Uruzu and the moment Tangerine approved of the designs we immediately launch the AIC CHRONICLES away. We don’t want to wait for the exact postponed date, we want to rush its original ones because a lot of people especially the AIC members are anticipating this project…and as a matter of fact I promised myself that out of all my abandoned projects, this one must succeed. In percentage, that would be a 10% successful project in comparison to 90% abandoned ones… (Laugh)

Reporter: After the 4th posting of the episodes, how is the whole story been developing so far?

Tailgunner: I always had this voice at the back of the head telling me that the whole show is going slow. When I try to speed things up the voice tells me again that I am skipping to many related details. Yes…it’s developing and unfurling slowly but do bear with us because the exciting part is on its way.


Reporter: The reason for you to say so?


Tailgunner: The story of AIC CHRONICLES is a story from the past, before the current events occurs and how things interrelated; then we will move to the present storyline and in the end, the future which is the aftermath of the whole story. Since we were still in the phase of explaining everything about the AIC universe – the history, geography, economics and the characters buildup…this part is a delicate and slow process. It’s like reading a bothersome instruction manual. After we noted on every single important turn of events, the future post for the AIC CHRONICLES will be exciting and fast paced.

Reporter: Talking about the characters, is there any favorites on your list?

Tailgunner: There are still a lot of characters that hadn’t done their debut entry yet, but I am currently satisfied on how well Junna and Alonqexe go. Silver and Ravenmin will see a lot more action next time…but as you mentioned earlier “until current recent post”.


Reporter: How about overall, the DPS finished with the character script and you should already have an insight on how the whole AIC CHRONICLES characters developed.

Tailgunner: In that case the top three will be Lady Junna, Lord Mana and Tangerine. Mana and Tangerine are the key puppet masters that pull the strings around the whole AIC events. They are not necessary bad guys, but they are very manipulative in their way of achieving their goals.

As for Lady Junna…

“You don’t mess with Lady Junna… (Laughs)”

Reporter: The most well designed character?

Tailgunner: I go for Ishtar.

Reporter: The coolest character?

Tailgunner: I go for Alonqexe.

Reporter: Most realistic character?

Tailgunner: Alonqexe seems realistic apart from not giving his character glasses. If things need to be so realistic we got more than half of the character running around with glasses! Another character would be Rose.

Reporter: Best power-ups and transformation?


Tailgunner: Hats down to Kluang. His powers are hilarious. Sanji-Q also poses some flashy fighting skills.


Reporter: Who would you say the most powerfull character in the AIC Chronicles?


Tailgunner: Lady Junna and Tangerine. They both had different abilities…but they are still freaking powerfull.

Reporter: Before we wrapped it up for the day, any message for the readers out there?

Tailgunner: I would like to say a thousand thank you for reading and supporting this AIC Chronicles. It was a great way to at least meet one another again after the end of the forming fad back a few years ago. Thank you to my DPS team, dedicating a slice of their life per day making this whole thing possible. Thank you Tangerine for that idea spark…to Ravenmin who I heard were busy promoting the latest updates on AIC CHRONICLES every time we put up a new episode on the blog, to Silver for her fan fiction back then. Hopefully this will make do to compensate my abandoned project in turning your work into a comic…sorry about that. To Kluang where ever you are for the fan fiction on Badguy vs AIC, back then AIC was known as the Gates of Babylon. Keep the comments going and do please, enjoy the show.


The next 4 episode will introduced three more characters to the story; Sanji-Q, Panthera and Blinkiddies…so stay tuned. That’s all of it. Thank You