Bearing Gifts

Cheri, Chancellor of the Tuffles of Plant, was in the ‘Vegeta Region’ of the planet— that half of the planet (or, less optimistically, a third, with all the saibabeasts and destron taking its own slice of the pie) primarily inhabited by the Vegetans, a cultural group of saiyans whom Cheri’s people were, until relatively recently, at war with. This was not her first time in the Vegetan Region, nor even her first time here in peace, but it was the first time where she was here as the chancellor but not here to talk to Vegetan leadership.

She was here, in Sadala Capital, with a rather interesting purpose: she had some of the latest and greatest in tuffle technology— not weaponry, of course, that hasn’t been as much of a focus since the War ended, and some Vegetans might have attacked her on sight if they were hungry enough for battle and she was visibly armed— that being, anti-destron gear! Anti-destron masks, gloves, suits, hoses, sprays, fans, force fields, spherical vehicles, medicines, drones, and dedicated ‘Restron’-brand robots. A few teams had triple-checked that none of it could be misappropriated by bad actors, which is why this batch of technology didn’t include the ‘anti-destron laser blasters’. This technology was already being widely applied on the tuffle side of the world, and they’d already supplied the Vegetan government with quite a bit… but, no, this time the technology would be supplied directly to the Vegetan people.

Cheri appeared over one of the city’s forums (in the Roman sense; a public space), specifically the city’s largest and most beautiful public park: she was wearing her battlesuit (turns out, very popular with the Vegetan demographic) and held a high-tech suitcase in her left hand. In it, more technology than any one person could know what to do with, all kept within capsules!

”Vegetans of Sadala, Saiyans,”

Her voice was amplified by a microphone in her scouter. Whether ‘Sadala’ here applied to the sector or the planet was ambiguous, but helpful in that different people would resonate more with different interpretations.

”I come bearing gifts.”

There was already a crowd of Vegetans: some awed, some angry at seeing a tuffle, most confused. Even more were confused when, in short order, she began to present some of the tech, and what it could accomplish. The Vegetans were… hesitant, distrusting, moving away or refusing despite the freeness of it all.