Private Conflicted Memories

[Alli Vern]

"What do you mean? What government is there to turn me into? The Omega Protectorate is gone, The CIS just gave in to pressure. I am not wanted anymore to my knowledge." She shook her head. "Plus this time everything is mobile. Aurna at least kept that rule. Nothing on a planet. Though it would be better if I sucked up to a government. Hmm Any suggestions?" She got up and sighed, getting used to her. She had only barely used this body before deciding to hide away in her own mind. "I am not sure what I should do, perhaps I could transfer my conscious to a computer, do you think that would work? Then I could be anything." Alli got up and smiled, "So we were having drinks right?"

Matsu Ike

 

[Matsu Ike]

"No sweetie, not into to... over too." She said it and looked at Alli Vern with a look. "Sell your products and make them great and the people will come but don't tie yourself to any one government or group. That is where the trouble comes from as if they change leadership and direction you are then having your stuff used to harm people or commit crimes and peopl want to come after you for reasos of 'Well you sold it' which makes no sense." She was hoping she explained it better but was looking at her now that Alli was able to move around and yeah mobile was the way to go in many cases. "Mobile thoug is one fo the best ways to have facilities... planets are good but good mobile factories can always jump away."

 

[Alli Vern]

"Hmm need to find some neutral space, tow my stations and move my fleets. I have a mobile refinery, mining station, factory ships. I just have to make something out of them. It seemed that Tanlab never came out with much in the way of actual useful products besides a couple space stations. " Alli sighed and walked towards the room they were in earlier. Though this time there was real drinks on the table. Alli grabbed a bottle and took a swig. "Gods I have been gone too long. We are old, you even older of course. what have you been doing this whole time? besides making a company that blows mine out of the water."

 

[Matsu Ike]

"The usual." The jedi master stood there with a look on her face. "I train, I obserrve and I explore. Temples, systems of ancient renown and lost stories. I have trained many more jedi and I learned a great deal more about the force." She said it and had a small grin on her face but didn't take a drink.. she didn't drink alcohol just tea which was still there and warming it up was easy enough to do. The jedi master though looked at Alli Wren. "It will maybe take a little getting used to bu the galaxy is a big place and even more so since most people seem to only care about some of the worlds they read about in history holo's."

 

[Alli Vern]

Aurna/Alli shook her head and warmed the tea and poured Matsu some. Alli took another swig and shook her head. "I remember when I first started... I used to go on all sorts of weird adventures. I had no real business doing it, but it was fun. I should do that again. Though I would have to exercise some, This body isn't quite in as good of shape as it needs to be to go out and explore. Maybe I could find some minerals or some historic object for inspiration. " It had been ages since she had done such things. Even before she had 'died' She had stopped doing the more crazy things. "Does Hanna go out with you? the ex Vice Chancellor of the republic, leave the civilized world? " It was funny who you ended up with and well Matsu Ike had ended up with a politician out of all the people in the galaxy.

 

[Matsu Ike]

"She did a couple times, it wasn't really for her which isn't terrible though being alone in the jungle covered in sweat you do get a little stir crazy and one can miss waking up next to a loved one." The jedi master said it with a nod of her head. SHe enjoyed exploring but you had to take it with a small grain of salt as she wasn't near Hanna or having some fo the risks where Hanna might not know what happened to her until days or weeks later and if someone just happened to see her emergency beacon. Matsu rolled her shoulders and went back to sitting down as she wanted to be able to talk with Alli Wren/ Alli Vern

 

[Alli Vern]

“Understandable, It seems I dated some women as Aurna, though it seems that relationship has died. I don’t want to have a repeat of Circe, So I don’t know If I can ever settle down like you have. Its more fun to be open anyways.” She smirked and thought of her many trysts. “Still I hope I haven’t caused you too much trouble. It seems that Aurna was drowning in solitude. No wonder my memories came back. Thank you for helping the other me.” Alli/Aurna took a smaller drink as she began to realize this body didn’t have much tolerance for alcohol. She would have to fix that. She ordered some snacks to be delivered and looked at Matsu Ike . “You are a good friend, one of the few who I know I can trust. It seems I will have to do a lot of networking.”

 

[Matsu Ike]

With a nod the jedi master stood next to Alli Vern before she spoke. "Yep, relationships are tricky but you have a new lease on life.. enjoy it and you don't have to settle just you know be a little more reserved jumping into bed with people... or you know I could introduce you to my sister Katagiri Ike ." She said it with a laugh and it was mostly a joke... mostly. She laughed though having some of her tea and snacks when she wondered what she might be able to see. "So come on now... what should we do... think of some new innovative tech idea that will get the creative juices flowing again? Do you want to hop in the ship and go exploring?"

 

[Alli Vern]

"What is wrong with jumping into bed with people?" She pauses thinks on it. "You might be onto something. I wouldn't say no to meeting someone, as long as they are cute and fun." Aurna sighed and just laid deflated on the couch. "I could come up with something, but I was thinking about populating space with my communication satellites again, and seeing how many are still intact. See if Serenity is around, I am sure that A.I. has been up to no good since the republic fired her. Make a new implant or two to better my connection with the machines around me. I could go exploring but what for? " She ran the numbers as she thought of her plans. "I also need to find some red dye, a new wardrobe, and some weapons." She realized that her current attire was absent of anything useful. "Know any good shops?"
Matsu Ike

 

[Matsu Ike]

"The hair dye, I can help with... a new wardrobe well I have made some protective outfits that can be helpful and exploring can give some benefits. There are secrets in the galaxy... some ancient mysteries that few can really match. It is how I found a great deal of the technology we have developed. Matter transporters were an impressive thing to find with the mystical loops.. or the pocket dimensions.. I know one of the things I have been wanting to do is recreate and improve upon the old hyperspace security network... as a means to develop highly advanced interdicition technology. You could help with that and use it to ease back into whatever you have planned..." She would have to see about contacting Katagiri to meet Alli Vern

 

[Alli Vern]

"So on that, if we built hyperspace beacons, and put in interdictor technology, we could then hide the beacon at will. Even if they warp anyways, they will be pulled out by the interdictor field throw in some other sensors and communication software so it is useful." She thought about it. "I don't think we can make it any more secure than that. as for every part of real space, there is a part of hyperspace. Large objects cast warp shadows, but besides literally covering a system with the fields though I don't know how you could prevent a determined invader. Granted the amount of scout craft dying trying to find another way would probably not be worth it." Aurna was completely absorbed into this problem. Matsu Ike

 

[Matsu Ike]

Matsu was looking and moved to stand in front her her with her arms crossed over her chest thinking about it. "Exactly, it is a problem and when one is determined enough they could find a way through... a lot like to built momentum sustainers into their ships now to counter interdictor fields but hyperspace routes... good ones at least are harder to find and secured. So if you want to mess with and narrow it down... why not just eliminate the wanting to veer off course. Instead of beacons saying it is safe, warning beacons designed to mimic and fake black holes or instability that ships computers won't want to risk going near. Have it give off the proper radiation."

 

[Alli Vern]

"Couldn't you just turn off the beacon then? Wouldn't it accomplish the same thing? otherwise you would have to plant tons of beacons making fake shadows and they couldn't be too similar or else you could isolate them. You would have to make their signatures unique enough...I don't know if it could be done." She played with the bottle in her hand as she thought. "The only problem I could see is them seeing through the fake radiation. unless perhaps you had them cycle in a random pattern or something so that you honestly couldn't say for certain it was fake. I still don't see how friends would get through."
Matsu Ike

 

[Matsu Ike]

The jedi master looked at her and nodded. "Yes it is possible though you don't want to turn off legit beacons... but a small hyperspace cannon designed for microjumps could help seed them and improve placement." She said it but then for allies it would be something that needed to be worked on as she nodded her head. "That might be the harder part for allies. Most ships my company has designed uses a nutaku system which has a signal for them to work together and be linked so they could communicate but not all ships are like that." She looked at Alli Vern and this was one of the things she missed. Tackling a problem.

 

[Alli Vern]

“If we include a way for allies to see through them, that could the greatest weakness of the warning beacons. However if we built the navigation computer for the ships, we could have more leeway. Still I think we would have to work hard to come up with a way for us to identify the fake shadows, so that they didn’t affect our ships and perhaps have this emission or whatever it is be something that is always changing so even if someone figures it out, they would have to have the latest codes to bypass the warning beacons. Hell, we could just have a bypass on the computer to go through anyways, though in theory anyone could do that…”
Matsu Ike

 

[Matsu Ike]

Hahahaha Matsu was internally laughing and looking over the ideas of Alli Vern well she was liking and preferring it. "Well we don't have to solve all of the problems right now.. we have the time to work on it and come up with different ideas to test things out." She said it and moved a hand up to grasp and wrap it around her shoulders. "it is just good to have you back and we shall enjoy other works. We can comeup with any number of things like advancing the shielding technology that we have. New shields with a back up system and lattice work of overlapping the shielding towers. Improving the defensive networks of it that we can do for stations."

 

[Alli Vern]

Aurna smiled. "I know, but you presented me with a problem... its how I work I started coming up with ways to solve it. Your lucky I don't have a lab here or else you would of lost me already as I start building first a regular hyperspace beacon and then spinning out from there. The room would be full of partially working devices, I would be starving and my assistants and such would be screaming my ear out as it had already somehow been a week or two." She smiled and welcomed the hug or whatever was happening. "It is good to be back. We just have to make the most out of this second go around. I don't want to have to hide again."
Matsu Ike

 

[Matsu Ike]

"I don't know, hiding and avoiding some of the people in the galaxy is honestly not so bad. Not everyone has a persons best interest in mind and a lot just want to try and get the advantage or use you..... but then the galaxy is made up of trillions of people so there are just as many who are great to talkwith and work with. Companies that have shown some of the best skills." She said it and had some more tea while bringing up a map of the galaxy on a hardlight display. Showing regions of it and some fo the sector. "Though there is also the chance to really go out and explore.. find people who don't know who you were but will judge you on your character and deeds now. They also usually have some of the problems you can work to solve."

 

[Alli Vern]

"I plan on surrounding myself with security and have Serenity or a copy running it. I won't be cowed again." If only I could amass an army or something but alas even I can't fund that. I just don't want to feel that vulnerable again. Problems, like the beacon and my products keep me distracted. But they don't solve that fear." Alli had never been this honest before. "I thought by locking me away, I could escape it. But here I am talking to you and feeling this way all over again. " She sighed and placed the bottle down. "Your a jedi, and they are always talking about balance. Any Advice?"

Matsu Ike

 

[Matsu Ike]

"Yeah a little." The jedi master said and she was in some ways a similar situation... she had people in the galaxy who had loved to follow anything she did and try and make it seem bad... who wanted to constantly ruin her... they had left, they had retired and gone away simply because she stopped eventually trying to engage them. She moved on and it was easier to not give them the attention which meant they had to go and do the same to another person and another if they refused to give them attention. "There is always going to be someone who wants to make you afraid to leave your home and then they will still try and ruin that experience so you just have to do what you enjoy."