Advance All Systems! [Xyhn+Aldous]

[Camellia Swift]

[member="Countess Xyhn"] [member="Aldous Hofmann"]

It was time to fulfill another bit of the project that Rendili Stardrive had promised to enter into with Ri'ess Regal. The shuttle carrying Camellia from the Rendili ship to the factory ring around Pii grew ever closer to the destination where Xyhn and whoever else was being brought in for this section of the work were waiting. The young brunette had probably gotten far too involved with whatever vessel the vulpine female was putting together, but the curiosity of such a big project got her rather excited and she was seeing this through.

Besides, after Xyhn had purchased a Proton-8, Rendili designed reactor specifically for this rather mysterious project there was no way Cam was going to leave Rendili Stardrive out of this loop. Especially not when there were some very intriguing deals to compensate for the extensive confidentiality agreement that had to be met, not that Camellia had any problems with it herself. It was understandable with such a large and likely interesting work. One wouldn't want information on it leaked before it was revealed.

Still, Camellia was rather pleased she had gotten Rendili more involved in the creation process. They had already delivered the hyperdrive and reactor, and now it was time for the systems. The company was being well paid for the work, and their techs, mechanics, and engineers weren't being bossed around too much to avoid problems. And there was also the prospect for even greater rewards still.

Yes, Cam was excited to see this work through.

Aside from the slave rigging of the systems at this point, Camellia did find herself wondering which systems specifically the vixen of a woman was looking to enhance. . . .or what sort of special systems were looking to be installed.

 

[Nyxie]

The Pii Ring. It was the manufacturing plant where most of RRDI's largest ships were built, where the VIORA Satellites were being developed and where the the corporation's largest manufacturing centre in lay, rivaling the factories on the southern hemisphere of Sikune themselves. It had no formalized defensive installations, but with dozens of warships and hundreds of fighters stationed at any given time, it did not need them.
A squadron of first-generation Languor-Class starfighters few up beside Camellia's shuttle and gave it a formal escort into the hangars. It was unlikely anyone would reach so far towards RRDI's heart or so deep into ASA space but it only took one shot to kill an important interstellar CEO and with such cutting-edge innovations at the facility, the occasional snooping and espionage was unsurprising.
"Ah, Miss Camellia. Welcome!" Aynea addressed Cam on communique. "The project ship is being constructed over at facility J2-A. It's the one with the large capital port opening, you can't miss it. I'll meet you there."
Security around the entire assembly stage of J2 was high, fielding squads of home-built Adjudicator-Class super battle droids wielding blaster rifles, as well as plenty of RRDI personnel - distinguished by the fact that almost half of the detail were Mnenchei and all organic security agents wielded blades of a certain kind. Despite that, the assigned employees from both companies and the proprietors of the project alike were given clearance to pass... with a retinal scan, voice synthesis detector and specially-printed ID card of course. Such were small prices to pay for the large payday going to all of the engineers and scientists involved, as well as the near-half-billion spent on both the ship and its secrecy.
Aynea paced towards the half-formed skeleton of the ship, still mostly unplated and missing the entire nose section. In her hands were a solid-print manifest of all of the current outsource peripherals and apparatuses she'd purchased from other companies to expedite construction and improve end-build performance. Capital Overdrive Engines from Mandal Hypernautics, Curse-Class Custom Hyperdrive from Rendilli Stardrives, Proton-8 Reactor Core from Rendilli Stardrives, [???]Redacted from Mnenchei Monarchy Skunkworks, W-165 x2 from Kuat Drive Yards; List continues.

[member="Camellia Swift"]​

 

[Alli Vern]

Alli wren and her team of engineers, and of course her body guard Ashley arrived on Alli's personal vessel. " Well then what are we working on, I do believe I didn't think my favor would be used like this. " she said as she looked about at the unfinished ship. " So what is this thing for?" She asked looking it over and taking her time doing it. It was going to be interesting to work with another company for a ship she really knew nothing about. "So where do we start?"
[member="Countess Xyhn"] [member="Camellia Swift"]

 

[Camellia Swift]

[member="Alli Wren"] [member="Countess Xyhn"]

Well she was certainly receiving a rather warm and extremely grand welcome. Following her newfound escorts through space toward the port of the factory ring that Xyhn mentioned, Camellia found herself more than a bit . . . .excited! With everything set up like it was right now she was incredible anxious to see the finished project once the ship was finally put together. After the reactor and contract with Regal went through, and then both the reactor and advanced hyperdrive were delivered, with only the slight setback with that pirate delay when the hyperdrive was being shipped, Rendili Stardrive's CEO was beginning to feel like this grand ship being put into production was finally nearing completion.

So as she was guided into the bay to land, and began going through the various security procedures that, Camellia continued trying to consider what the final touches being put on would be. And it appeared as though she wasn't the only one with such questions, seeing as how Baktoid's own CEO was asking very similar questions.

 

[Nyxie]

Aynea finally approached [member="Alli Wren"], who'd arrived more or less right before [member="Camellia Swift"], it appeared.
"Well... it's a ship. It's supposed to be a deep space research vessel, designed to scour the dark of the galaxy for new life, new worlds and other scientifically important discoveries.
The foxtress placed down her datapad upon the security desk and patted a physical scale model twice gently.
"She's a loner so shes' got to be built strong and fast. The intermediate stages of fabrication have already begun and we are already onto assembly. We only just recently received our advanced hyperdrive and reactor core. While they're finalizing the installations of both of those apparatuses, there are still other systems and components that need to be wired to slaves or installed into the chassis. If you'll come with me, please."
Two Adjudicator-Class SBD's parted ways for the Ruferalahuin woman, her hand gesturing for the others to follow from behind her back as she passed.
Aynea moved onto the next security checkpoint, where Cammy had arrived.
"Ms. Swift, good to see you again. I hope you don't mind the security, but there are plenty of corporations and syndicates that would love to steal from us - Gods forbid, just try to waltz out of the front door with the ship, bring it to a blackmarket depot and have it armed to the teeth with two-bit weapons or something. This ship is being built for me, and the majority of its funding comes from me, so naturally I paid Ri'ess Regal Drives to up security measures and have a full detail on watch. Anyways, enough about me. Come!"
Aynea would escort the two women and their personal crews of engineers and laborers to the main area where the ship was rigged, docked and being built. Heavy magnetic locking clamps held its chassis and completed parts of its hull in place while long, narrow docking strips platformed towers of scaffolding, constantly trafficked by RRDI's own engineers.
There was still one person the vulpine woman awaited; [member="Oka Osaa"], the man she'd never got to thank for saving her drive core....

 

[Oka Osaa]

The Pii Ring, a place Oka didn't feel welcomed. Although he had his thoughts and feelings about it, he had to meet Miss Xyhn there to talk about the mission. Once he came into the area, he saw a huge factory. Probably for large transports, he thought. Before going any further, Oka stopped and waited for the escorts, assuming this large and well protected area would have them.

[member="Countess Xyhn"]

 

[Camellia Swift]

[member="Countess Xyhn"]

A research vessel then? This seemed very. . . .extraneous for just a exploration craft, but then when it came down to it Camellia knew she did not understand all the little quirks about equipment preferences that scientists had. She was a military woman after primarily and then after that she was a business woman. The two expedition vessels Rendili Stardrive had recently produced were both intended for deep space exploration, but one just happened to be oriented towards government projects preferably while the other was aimed towards the civilian sector. All the same whenever actual biologists and xenologists got into matters they always wanted custom facilities. . . .at least the doctors never complained about the med bays.

Just as Camellia wouldn't complain about good functionality and security, though she did feel like the Battle Droids were a little imposing. "No worries Lady Xyhn. I merely just am not used to so much droid security, just used to more organics. I completely understand though." Security was meant to be tight, and on someone's personal and well developed project the Rendili woman did truly understand. After all, she would be rather. . . . . cross if someone were to attempt to sabotage a project of her own or steal the designs of some of Rendili's vaunted technology.

And after seeing the rather interesting design of the ship in drydock as they were all lead there, Camellia had to admit it would be rather sad if such a craft ended up the basis of designs for pirate fleets.

 

[Alli Vern]

Alli was at home around droids. " Do I have permission to connect to your network and begin work? I figure I will ensure all the connections are working and wire up and test the system. and droids are so much more useful than organics. " She said with a laugh. It was interesting working on someone else's ship. Well here went nothing she though as she walked through the checkpoint and began her own assessment of the ship, which she was sure her engineers were doing as well. "Well give me the go ahead and we will get right to work, I would hate you to think we took any longer than necessary. "

 

[Nyxie]

"The droids are easier to maintain, have no mouths to feed or families to pay when they expire, and these are overall far more strong and effective."
Aynea flagged one of the droids over and gestured it to pick her up by the base of her tails with one hand, which it did gently and yet effortlessly. Then it placed her back on her feet.
"You two don't need my permission. Go to work whenever you're ready. I have to take care of something, so if you'll please excuse me."
The vixen bowed and left the two women, [member="Camellia Swift"] and [member="Alli Wren"], to the installations. She went off to another security checkpoint to invite in a very special guest. [member="Oka Osaa"] was the one who voluntarily protected her shipment. She wanted to thank him properly.
"It's alright, droids, you can let him through," said Aynea as she approached. "I would say I hope you weren't too hurt but it I can see you clearly came out on top."
She winked casually.
"I'm Lady Aynea Xyhn. The shipment you protected was mine, inbound to this very station. I invited you here. I never got to properly thank you."
On the other side of the checkpoint Aynea awaited. Oka's approach. She'd liked to shake his hand, or bow - whichever his culture or person preferred. Then, they could go straight to talking business.

 

[Oka Osaa]

Landing on the pad, he got out rather carefully. Even if he trusted someone, it didn't mean he trusted his surroundings. "Pirates are nothing. Just brainless scum." he said greeting her with a smile but soon came to a straight look after another thought. Holding out his hand Oka mentioned, "Nice to meet you Lady Xyhn. Although I would like to say the task went well, I can't. Many of Miss Swift's squadron was destroyed. But we managed to survive with the hyperdrive." he said scanning the area.

[member="Countess Xyhn"]

 

[Camellia Swift]

[member="Alli Wren"] [member="Countess Xyhn"]

Right, well it was all down to preference still if you asked Camellia. After all, droids needed to be repaired and replaced every so often too, so they did have expiration dates for example. Plus if one could be hacked then all of them could be hacked as well leaving a security issue if a slicer had been brought in. Thus it was expensive to produce quality enough droids with sophisticated systems to avoid such issues. Plus they tended to be less creative or free thinking. At the same time there were plenty of problems with organic units as well, it all came down to preference.

When Xyhn left though, Camellia found herself a tad confused. It wasn't as if she were going to be doing much of the system wiring herself, Rendili Stardrive's technicians and engineers were on that, though she supposed she could at least go and check on their progress. Turning to begin walking to the teams at work, the Rendili woman found herself stopping since she wondered what Baktoid had brought in, maybe it would be prudent to see what was going on with that first. "So, where should we begin then? Do you know what's the state of the systems your people are installing?"