[DarkJak2050]

Originally Posted by StratoSpear

Boy am I glad Athena's isn't published yet, troubled mind keeps shifting locations until I finally rested upon one which is very ideal; having the main Athena cast residing at areas within the Chiba Prefecture:
= Katami Residence - Tanaka, Togane, Chiba Prefecture
= Katami Dojo - Yoanji, Oamishirasato, Chiba Prefecture
= Praxidike HQ - Mount Nokogiri, Futtsu, Chiba Prefecture

Here's one of the early scenes of the first chapter:

Spoiler for Scene:

Camouflaged amongst the forested landscape on the hillside is a small yet elaborate infrastructure that serves as the base of operations for the renegade group Praxidike. Most of the base is within Mount Nokogiri, with only a few structures jutting out and facing towards Tokyo Bay from a high elevation that both Tokyo Bay and the Infinite Stratos Academy are completely in plain sight.

Standing at the elevated lookout platform is Gerald Bastion, leading member of Praxidike, sighing as he watches a column of smoke spewing out from the very distant IS Academy. Despite the apparent failure to deter the Golems from reaching the Academy, he remains relatively calm as though failure itself was one of the expectations of the attempt given that it is the Minerva’s first live sortie. The door behind him sweeps open and he turns around to see Jinrai Takafumi, the engineer responsible for developing weapons and the Minerva, entering along with Inami, Minerva’s user.

“Arisawa.”

Inami sinks his head with sheer disappointment as he could only imagine the terrible magnitude of rage that might be building up inside Gerald after committing such a huge blunder for his first mission. He hears Gerald stepping towards them but he could not bear to look up and face him. The sounds of his steps draw closer and stop directly in front of him.

“It wasn’t a failure. Don’t put your head down like that.”

Not a failure? Inami could not believe what he just heard. Did Gerald not realize that his blunder has allowed a Golem to pass towards the Academy and wreck havoc upon the school, the very cause of the smoke column he’s seen spewing out from the Academy? Yet, the Praxidike leader mentioned it was not and Inami slowly raises his head, looking at him with a confused expression.

“Had you not tried to intercept, the Academy would have to deal with two of those monsters.”

“But still…”

“And you might’ve been killed had you tried to take on both giants at once.”

Supposedly the idea here is that in Athena-verse, TWO Golems were sent to attack the Academy during their Class League tourney. One got intercepted by the Minerva while the other got past and attacked the Academy.

Comments?

Wherever you feel most comfortable on where your characters reside, man. It's really your call.