Union HQ

[MikDaTv]

Union HQ

Rita sat in the computer chair in the main control center. Her feet were up on the console and her head was resting back in her hands. She was doing all the work necessary to run the station from this room without bothering to touch the computers themselves. Wireless network access gave her all the tools she needed to operate all the stations systems.

The Asteroid base was empty for the moment, Jor was out doing something or other, and they so far hadn't had any applicants to join, even though the governments of Ilium and Centauri thought they important enough to fund the maintenance and care for the HQ.

a message came to her notice as she relaxed. a new resume from an old friend. Rita channeled it strait to the accepted folder and sent a message back "welcome to the Union warrior recruit."

she smiled at the challenge. She'd do her best to remain the only piece of technology not broken by the intense field of mechanical bad luck that surrounded that man.

[Odan Thos]

The Phoenix came out of hyperspace on the edge of the asteroid field. Kitana looked around from the holographic bridge and smiled. This place would be really easy to defend, but she was shocked just how calm the field was. She had the Phoenix to got to thruster only and moved slowly into the field. She pulled up a communication channel to the asteroid base. "This is Warrior Recruit Kitana onboard the Cutter-class Corvette Phoenix. I am requesting permission to dock." She waited patiently for the communication. The ship was given permission to dock and transfer Kitana over. The Phoenix came into a docking port and Kitana walked off the bridge, but turned towards Elizabeth Sweetwater. "Captain, join the Union's corvette patrol pattern. I am sure they can use an additional ship to perform scans.” She gave Elizabeth a hug before walking off the ship.

Elizabeth smiled and conferred the order. Elizabeth was born on Corellia twenty four years ago. Her father ran a cantina and her mother was a CoreSec Officer. She spent her youth working as a waitress in her father’s cantina and dreaming of working with in CoreSec like her mother. But when she came to age and applied to CoreSec, she was denied. It turned out that she failed the written exam. Without being able to get into space she was stuck waitressing. Her saving grace was when a young Smuggler came into the cantina she was working in. Her co-pilot had just left her for because he had a mental breakdown. She started to talk with Elizabeth and learned about her situation. She figured she could always help someone out of a bad spot. She offered Elizabeth the position of co-pilot and she accepted. The two became close friends. They would continue to work together until Elizabeth joined the Jedi Order. She then took over the smuggling operation. She would continue until Kitana asked her to captain her Cutter-class Corvette.

Kitana walked onto the asteroid base and looked around, she noticed a girl walking away. She however could sense she was not human but a human replica droid. She ran up to her smiling, “Hello, I am Kitana. How are you?” She was not turn off that the girl was a machine, they could be even more human than some people.

[Drake]

Drake's awing exited hyper space much to his suprise "Did I want to exit here? Oh well" Drake said to himself as he took a swig from another bottle he found in his awing during the trip. The Asteroid was coming rather fast so Drake decided he'd better hail them. "Yo" he said with a hiccup "Drake Hellion here...warrior recruit. I'm gonna land so I suggest everyone get the hell out the way" He said as he made his final approach. Drake pulled up as the landing gear came out the bottom of the awing he pulled into the hanger and landed. (Thats right not crash landed). Drake sat in the cockpit for a second "Wow, did that better drunk than sober" he said as he opened up the hatch and tried to climb out. Instead he fell none to gracefully to his face.

Drake looked up his face bead red and alcohol all over his clothes "Ahoy" He said to no one in particular.

[MikDaTv]

Rita turned, spinning on her heel. It took facial and auditory recognition software .08 seconds to register the voice as Warrior Recruit Kitana.

"Good day. I'm called Rita. Last time we met i took the form of a control console in the cockpit of the Memory of Corellia." Rita said

[Odan Thos]

Kitana giggled at her comment. "Well, you hide it. I would never know you use weigh eight tons." Kitana smiled, trying to keep a light mode which she was not able to keep going in the Jedi Order. She turned and looked over at Drake as he stumbled out of the cockpit. He seemed to let himself go after leaving the Jedi Order. "Hello Drake. I must say, that was one of your better landings. But I would suggest a aspirin and a bottle of water. You are going to have a bad morning tomorrow.

[Drake]

Drake looked up at seeing Kitana and a girl who said she was Rita he laughed standing up slowly "Rita?" He asked. "You mean that AI that used to annoy the crap outta me" he said walking over to them well more like stumbling. "Yea, well what can I say I drive better a little drunk" he said to Kitana. He then cracked his neck some "I have some in my ship...asprin that is, but I never really have hang overs too much" he crossed his arms leaning on the wall "So, whats goin on here, I just ran into Jor, thought I'd head back here to see if anything interesting was going on"

[MikDaTv]

Rita turned to Drake and her facial recognition software immediatly registered his identity. Rita flagged . "Jor's currently out. He left to go check out the major players in the galaxy. Said something about keeping tabs on everyone."

Rita looked at Drakes fighter. "It's agreeable to see you didn't crash this time Drake."

[Drake]

Drake looked at Rita weirdly "What happened? Did your personality chip get fried or something?" Drake asked her as he unfolded his arms and reached in his jacket pulling out a flask. "I mean you sound more robotic than normal, is everything fine...you didn't catch a trojan horse or something did ya?" he asked her taking a drink from the flask, this time he was drinking water instead of alcohol.

[MikDaTv]

"i'm no longer connected to the Memory's sarcasm generator." Rita said with a frown. "And for the record, i don't have anything to do with Trojan anything." She said putting her hands on her hips.

"You both have rooms on the top level, the residence section. Not much but they're getting better. We don't have a lot of droids to finish the construction on the upper levels." Rita finished.

[Odan Thos]

Kitana shrugged. "I don't really care; I don't spend much time sleeping. Also I always have the Phoenix nearby to hold all my extra cloths." She was not sure if Rita was that human yet, so she may not understand the joke. She walked over to Drake and looked at the flask before heading to her room. "What type of garbage you got in that thing? Come over to my room on the first night off, I got the good stuff." She was just teasing Drake, she had brought a bottle of Corellian Whisky in her bag, figured she would get her fellow Recruits a good night after the first day of work.

[Drake]

Drake looked at Rita "Haha very funny..." he said as he drunk from his flask again. "Well you know I'm just tryin to help you out buddy, you should be careful before you go interfacing with some random computer" he smirked at her. When Kitana asked what garbage he had in the flask he smirked "Its just water...kinda tired of being drunk right now" he told her as he watched her walk off "Hey don't start something you can't finish, I don't care who you are I'll drink ya under the table any night" he laughed before turning back to Rita "Cool, not that many droids...which means not too much stuff I can break" he laughed as he started to walk off.

[Drake]

After a short amount of sleep Drake woke up and headed towards the hanger. He figured he would go out for a drink and probably find Jor to see what exactly the Union's business was going to be now. After climbing in his awing he took off.

[MikDaTv]

The Roger Young docked in the corvette bay of the Asteroid Base. Members of her crew spilled out of her airlock on leave and Jor joined them, walking into the base himself.

Jor went to his room where he deposited his pistol and amphistaff and put on a change of clothes before heading down to the control center and sitting down. A quick look at the status boards told him there were two more people here. Kitana, which kind of surprised Jor but he figured it shouldn't have since they always seemed to cross paths. And Drake, which didn't surprise him at all.

Rita walked in behind Jor and sat down in the seat next to him. "So, how was your trip?" She asked.

"As informative as i could have hoped for. Our friend Zilfer is engaging in some Galaxy risking stupidity and as usual as completely ignored my advice, so i think we can expect something pretty serious coming soon that could have been avoided easily." Jor said.

Rita sat upright in her chair and listened, logging the information away. Jor leaned back in his chair and continued. "Like that whole Jack incident. If people had done what i said and just asked the guy what was up, it wouldn't have turned out to be the problem it had become, but noooo."

Rita turned to him. "Well, you have the wisdom of age." She said.

"Hey" Jor started. "What the hell is that supposed to mean?"

"Just that your a lot older then a lot of people out there who are in charge of things they have no right to be in charge of." Rita said.

Jor stood up and pointed a finger at Rita. "Ok you, lets get one thing strait. I'm not old!"

"I never said you were old, just that you were older." Rita said with a strait face.

"You better learn how to smile with that new body of yours or i won't be able to tell when your joking." Jor said turning on his heel and walking out.

[MikDaTv]

Rita cruised the networks available to her. She focused her processing power on the holonet for anything the Union might be interested in.

A few instances of Pirate attack near LONAS boarders caught her eye but nothing major enough for her to care. Cisila had been hit recently by a few pirate attacks and that caught her interest. Jor had expressed a wish that Cisila would join the League of Non-Aligned Systems.

Rita flagged it for later reference and sent a message to Jor's datapad.

[MikDaTv]

Jor was helping the mechanics install the new stealth systems on board the Merlin. It was slow going but they were almost finished. Most of the LONAS military budget had been spend on this baby at Jor's request and Jor wasn't about to let it down.

Climbing out of the engine room crawlspace Jor opened his datapad to read the message Rita sent him. It was intriguing but not much else. He wanted to get the Chiss to join the League and this might be a way to show good faith, but he couldn't just go hunting pirates, he didn't have the resources or the manpower to do it.

Then he remembered Kitana was here and he's brought a ship of her own. It could hold the lines here in case of attack and the Merlin could operate and he'd even get a chance to test the new stealth system out. It was only a 6 hour trip from here to Chiss space so Jor decided to give it a shot. putting his headset to his ear he contacted the Merlin's bridge.

"Keldon, get ready to sail. Have a hyperspace route plotted for Chiss space and brief the crew that we're going pirate hunting. I want to test out the stealth systems as they are." Jor said into the comlink.

Shipmaster Keldon's voice came back over the link. "So say we all. It will be done warmaster."

With a click jor hung up the line and then called Rita. "Rita, we're going to Csilla to try our luck. Come along please, i might need you."

Rita responded with a very mechanical "Ok" and hung up on him. Jor shrugged and then called Kitana. "Princess, we're going out for a bit. Please hold the fort down till we get back, shouldn't be too much of a problem but i need your corvette manning the lines here for a while. We're going to Csilla."

Jor waited for a reply as the Merlin's crew began to pack up their tools and get inside. Access panels were closing up all over the ship and Jor himself began walking to one of the ships two large boarding ramps.