Directorate Officer
Fairview, Hast
Gir flicked the lightswitch on in the rearmost room of the basement, casting harsh white light across industrial benches and cabinets. The basement of Gir's villa had been outfitted with a workshop to allow the man to tinker with ideas and technologies on his own as a hobby. When he first dreamed up the idea, he imagined fiddling with old starship engines and swoops. Yet the first time he actually had walked into the room to use it, and he found himself contemplating a work project instead. Azira slipped past his form to wander into the workshop as she looked around before setting down a suitcase. But she quickly spun around on her heel.
"Everything is still packed up, isn't it?"
Gir nodded, "To be truthful, I'm not sure what I have for this sort of work. My computer work has been pretty limited, and what experience I have is purely with starship systems."
"That's all right, today is just a basic demonstration to get you thinking about it...just so you have a practical idea of what we're working on..."
She nodded as she flipped open the suitcase's lid to reveal a blocky device that looked like a combination between a clear-cased soft drink dispenser and a random assortment of electronics from the local computer store. Gir stroked his chin. I wonder if Lod used one of these before...But the thoughts of his protege quickly faded away as Azira flipped a switch, which turned on the Duros Bio-Comp 1000. Gir thought that he saw a few air pockets bubble up before the computer's built-in holo-projector began to coalesce a loading screen in front of him.
"You didn't plug it in," observed Gir, "what's the power source?"