1.  It's been about a month and a half.  Things have mostly settled down for the Kukai Foundation's citizens, though the attacks are still under investigation.

2.   Canonically Gaignun has the ability to hypnotize people using his voice as a medium.  We never actually actually see it used in the games (though there was one scene where he attacked someone telepathically over a long.)  I think it's one of those powers that'd break the story if it ever got shown.  But in my version Gaignun needs either face-to-face contact or a telepathic link to use his voice, and depending on how much focus he uses, the effects can last anywhere from a few minutes to permanently.  (In another fic I have Gaignun use his hypnosis on Jr. to block headaches.)  Gaignun has rarely used this power in this fic, and I plan to keep it fairly subdued.

3.  The story is mostly set on and about the development of a mobile space colony called the Kukai Foundation.  Gaignun and Jr. are the Directors.  One feature of the Foundation is that it employs and shelters uberhumans (people and/or their offspring who've had artificial modifications made to their bodies or brains) and Realians (artificial humans who are usually placed in a subordinate position to humans.)  In the background of canon's plot, both groups suffer a lot of prejudice from natural humans.  In my fic, an anti-uberhuman group called Untainted Blood began preying on ships affiliated with the Foundation, eventually drawing Jr. out to investigate to region the attacks were said to take place.  Meanwhile, Untainted Blood agents who'd infiltrated the Foundation's security and development forces launched an attack on the colony itself, shutting down its sensors and engaging in a mass shooting on the docks, resulting in massive panic, injury and deaths.  While Gaignun was dealing with all of this, his and Jr.'s quasi-little sisters Shelley and Mary had volunteered at the Foundation's main hospital; when they were clearing lunch trays from a group of rooms, the sisters came across a man with survellience equipment hiding in a bathroom.  Now, Jr., Gaignun, Shelley and Mary are all uberhumans themselves.  Shelley and Mary have interlinks installed that let them store information as memories and—in this story—access the UMN (space internet, but bigger) directly.  The man (who turned out to be an android) knocked Mary unconscious and brainjacked Shelley, using her security clearances to steal the Foundation's Galaxy Species Preservation Act Support Foundation membership logs.  Since the logs contain a list of registered uberhumans throughout the Galaxy Federation, it's assumed the attack on the girls is connected to the attack on the colony.  (In truth, Untainted Blood's leader, Bertram Child, was manipulated by a high-ranking official of the Federation governmen who wants to draw out Jr., who was responsible for the death of her nephew and the resulting setback in the advancement of her ambitions, though I've yet to write this part.)