Because posting fic ideas are fun, I just had an idea for a sort of alternate universe Galactic HQ setting? Of course, it's still lacking in plot, but I can always work that out sometime later and also after I get rid of/finish off all of my unused ideas I've already come up with.
Yeah. So it's the Veilstone headquarters, in the time leading up to the Spear Pillar Incident. Cyrus hasn't been seen anywhere around HQ other than an unused closet (which, in fact, hides an Extremely Secretive and Stealthily Hidden Entrance to... somewhere lab-y), and he's placed the Commanders in charge due to his... 'absence'. Mars acts more like a Grunt than a Commander, unfortunately (yeah, I'm using the airhead!Mars personality for this), and because three is always easier to deal with than two Saturn and Jupiter randomly pull a higher-up Grunt named Melanie out of a crowd, call her Deimos, and dub her the 'Substitute Commander'. Deimos also comes included with another Grunt, one much lower than her. His name is Hal. He does what he's told when he's told with no exceptions, and is also a bit of a coward (in essence, the epitome of a standard Grunt). Jupiter and Saturn pull him into 'Temporary' Commanderdom, only because they needed someone to lead the missions nobody else wanted to.
This is entirely lacking in plot. There's not going to be much Cyrus in it (despite how fun it is to write him, I once again blame Metal Coat).