How to make a Burrow

[Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha]

The sun rose over the ice planes of Saqqar, a few of the ruined towers that doted the planet casting long shadows across the planes. She had picked the planet mostly because A it was isolated and few ever went to it and B she needed a personal place to call her own and build the projects she would do for Armatech.
A thick layer of silvery smoke was permeating the air around her as she sat in the leather seat of her ship, The voidstrider, and took a drag of her miniature cigar. She had the ship set to land softly on the plains with the mountain, which she was about to build into, behind the ship while she just enjoyed the view. She had put in a request for a building crew from Armatech and even submitted the plans to her boss [member="Draco Vereen"] to review them.
She had spent day's over star charts to find an isolated planet were she could build her base that was also close enough to mandalorian space since the company was moving it's headquarters to that section of space. Granted she'd probably buy an apartment or furnish part of her office into one but this base she wanted to have as a way to just get away from it all and work on projects that didn't need to be rushed or finished straight away.
A ping from the control board sounded after the initial jolt through the ship as it landed. "Hm?" She let out as she leaned forward and looked at what the alert was for. 'It seems the construction crew is here.' She thought as she punched in a few buttons to bring up a view of the ship that dropped out of hyperspace above Saqqar.

 

[Laira Darkhold]

The Indominus reverted from hyperspace over the planet Saqqar, along with a few medium transports in tow. Zreame had some project taking place and I had brought her a work crew to build whatever it was she was putting together. I had also brought her a gift, because, well anything she is building needs to be protected, and it might as well be protected by the best money could buy. Besides I had friends within the company I had purchased the droids from anyway.

“Contact miss Zeibitha and let her know we have arrived. If she could see to it that we had a transponder beacon, we will begin landing immediately.” I told the crew. “And have the Indominus remain at High Orbit. No reason to bring it down there to stand guard.” I said, clarifying what I meant by begin landing. Three medium transports with labor and construction droids plus a good number of sentient workers. I had taken careful measure to ensure that only she and I were aware what world we were on, just in case she wanted to be sure it was hidden from outsiders.

[member="Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha"]

 

[Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha]

With the request of the transponder being activated she pushed a few buttons and activated it, though she did send a message to begin at the mountain behind her ship, sending it's coordinates to be sure. She had a datapad with the design of the place just to be sure that if they'd be needed she'd have them. "Good morning boss." She sent over the holo terminal. "Seems you always travel in style huh?" She said with a smile while she also sent the scans of the surrounding area with a marker for where her base was to be placed on the mountain itself. 'She was a little clad that the planet wasn't inhabited since a warship like the Indominus coming out of hyperspace above it would certainly cause a panic.
With a few more button presses she took the wireless headphone and placed it on her ear so she could talk to [member="Draco Vereen"] as she left the cockpit of her ship. "So how was the trip over here? uneventful I hope." She said as she made her way to her personal bedroom and began to change into low temperature worthy clothing, tucking her tail into the pants since there weren't any clothes with her physiology in mind. Her horns were a little easier since she had just ordered a little larger hood to keep them tucked in. A viewport showed her that the transports were coming in from orbit.

 

[Laira Darkhold]

With the coordinates sent and received the transports started to descend, me among them with the workers in tow. Over the comm-channel I heard her addressing me so I swapped to a private channel and took her call in the small captain’s quarters on board the small transports. At least small transport by comparison to the Indominus. “Well you know me, I have to impress the ladies.” I replied jokingly. “And no, nothing happened of note. We will be landing soon, and we’ll talk about what you are up to. But I did bring you a gift for whatever it is you are up to out here.” I told her over the comm-channel. Saqqar was certainly out in the middle of nowhere and was more than just secluded, it was nearly uncharted. If she was looking for a hiding place, she had certainly found the right place to start. The transports drifted towards the planet, slipping into the atmosphere and landing at the designated landing zone. I left the ship to meet Zreame, still wearing my new armor, because well. I liked it and wanted to show it off to her.

[member="Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha"]

 

[Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha]

Zreame had just put her boots on the snowy ground when the first of the transports touched down, her own ships landing ramp behind her with closed doors. She waited for her boss to leave the transport he was on before walking towards him. A little whistle would come from her as she saw [member="Draco Vereen"]'s new armor. "Looking good there boss, the new Phrik alloy armor?" She said gesturing towards his armor. Her clothes were low temperature suited and gray in color so she'd stand out from the white around her. Pointing at the mountain she began to speak again. "There's the mountain I think starting in the middle were the smooth cliff face is should be a good place to begin." She ordered the workers to at least set up a camp with the four ships forming a circle around it for cover from the arctic winds of Saqqar.

 

[Laira Darkhold]

I nodded to the Cernun woman standing in the arctic wind in her cold gear. "Not too bad yourself." I said in response, allowing her to take the lead on this project. It was hers after all. She had the work crews get going, carfully excovating the smooth rock face of the mountain while the ships moved to provide some cover against the wind and chill. Inside my own set it was comfortable, due to the temperature regulator built into it, but that was expensive and wasn't common place for workers. They had to wear clothing and gear to protect them from the cold. "Are you sure you want to live somewhere as cold as this? Don't you think your tail would freeze?" I asked jokingly. She certainly had a knack for finding someplace to disappear to. Since the workers didn't know where we were, and since I would wipe the ships navicomputers it would be hard to find her out here. After a few minutes, I got bored of sitting around, "I'm going inside, care to join me?" I said, pointing back to her ship. I wasn't cold, I just didn't like standing around watching people work.

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[Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha]

Zreame spoke to the foremen of each crew and gave them their assignments and then watched them work for a bit before [member="Draco Vereen"] spoke to her. "Well you have to admit though the view is something to behold, and I doubt I'll be staying outside for long periods of time." She replied with her smile barely visible from the hood over her head as well as the protective goggles over half her upper face. "Sure want something to drink?" She said as she gestured for the foremen to link their progress into her ship's holo projectors.
Once inside the ship She pulled the hood back as well as the protective goggles. "Well I think I'll be adding a hot spring bath if this planet continues to have such uncooperative weather." She joked as she walked him into the conference room, she had made into a very relaxing living room, throwing the jacket on one of the comfortable chairs keeping the pants on from the cold weather gear. "Want anything specific to drink?" She then asked as she pressed a few buttons on the wall and the holo projectors displayed the mountain and the progress on the wall in a 2-d model. She began pouring Avedame juice into a glass for herself.

 

[Laira Darkhold]

I followed her up the ramp into her ship where I removed my helmet and took a seat. When she offered me a drink I responded, "Just pour me a glass of whatever you are having. That should be fine for me." She had a nice layout for her ship, spacious and had an interesting aesthetic design going. Outside workers and droids were working on her project of excavating a cave into the mountain where she would build her laboratory, or workshop, or her house I guess. I figure that is what she wants this to be, a home to go back to. "Well I forgot to tell you I brought some Hegemonic Automation TA4's with me for you to use. They are the best combat droid money can buy so I grabbed twenty of them and but Icon shields on them for you to do what you want with them. They make excellent protection." I Told her, holding up a portable hologram projector displaying the war droid. "Once you get this home away from home finished they will do nicely as some minor protection should you get discovered." I leaned back and relaxed, hearing the work continue outside steadily, despite the cold.

 

[Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha]

She came back to him with another glass of Avedame juice and handed it to him and then took a seat next to him. "Hmm quite an interesting design and they would do nicely, Thanks boss." She said with a smile and gave him a thanking kiss on his cheek as she then leaned back into her seat and took a sip.
She had sent a manifest of what to make and install in her little getaway to bring with to Saqqar so she was sure those were still left on the Indominus to be used at a later time. Outside they carved out a small part of the mountain to be used as the slide to hide the hangar doors that would lead into the compound though they then placed it to the side to be used later.
"So what sparked the reason to come and look over my little hideaway by yourself?" She asked [member="Draco Vereen"] as curiosity shone on her face.

 

[Laira Darkhold]

I blushed when she kissed me on the cheek. I wasn't used to people showing affection, but it wasn't a bad thing. "Boredom mostly. I like keeping an eye on you and Kay, making sure you are taken care of, getting what you need and all that jazz," I said similing as she asked. "And everything else you wanted is going to be brought down once there is a place to put it all." I told her, making sure she knew that I had brought everything she had asked for and the TA4's were simply extra, something from me to her. "I would have brought more, but I didn't know how big a place you were building out here so I brought a moderate amount. I have been meaning to ask, if you are going to live out here, how often am I going to see you on Mandalore?" Since I did like to keep tabs on Zreame and Kay, I did want to know.

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[Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha]

Zreame smiled at him at that. "Well I kind of added a little apartment to my office at the mandalorian executive office so this is going to a sort of home away from home. When I need to be alone or just want to work in peace." She said with a wide smile. "Well that and if I wan't to play mad scientist as well." She said before giggling a little. "Who would have thunk it though big bad [member="Draco Vereen"] a big daddy to me and Kay." She then said teasingly at him, she couldn't lie she enjoyed to see the tough guy blush.
The crew worked efficiently and had hollowed out the main hangar area and began working on the corridor which would house the turbolift as well as the dry-dock hangar bellow the entrance hangar. The excess rocks were all mulched into material for the permacrete interior walls that would reinforce the base's interior more than the mountain itself ever could.

 

[Laira Darkhold]

I raised an eyebrow, "Well, you are always welcome to get a larger suite on Mandalore. Myself, I was thinking about rebuilding the Old Republic's Chancellor's quarters for my home. And Daddy isn't the word I would use, but if you'd like I am pretty sure I can live with it." I said jokingly. The work would be done in just a few days, if that long in the first place. With the few droids I brought to give her some security and the very remote local, and her ship, which was made for escape, I figure she would be fine out here on her own when she was this far out. "As for you playing mad scientist, make sure your living space isn't in the blast radius." I said, laughing at my own joke.

Nightfall would force the workers to take a break and wait until morning to finish. By mid-day tomorrow they would be able begin installing her equipment and interior decorating the laboratory.

[member="Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha"]

 

[Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha]

"Well of course I added a line of reinforced permacrete around the lab, you know just in case." She said with a wide whimsical grin. "Oh daddy isn't the word is it? then by all means what is the word I should use? papa bear?" She then said with a wide grin as she took half her drink in a single sip. As night fall approached she gestured for [member="Draco Vereen"] to take one of the guest rooms for the night.

She woke up as one of the transports moved above her ship and landed, unloading the new gear the workers would need to begin building the laboratory as well as dig down far enough so that they could begin making the generators. They had begun carving out the apartment as well. Looking out the viewport she saw they had begun building the skeleton of the hangar, flashes of torches and welders showing every so often.

 

[Laira Darkhold]

When we awoke that morning and reconvened in the galley of the small ship for breakfast. The work crews were doing well. They would be to interior decorating by tonight, which meant by tomorrow morning they would have the place put together. Maybe not all the way completed, but certainly livable. And that was the goal, and why they had set such a rapid pace. The arctic winds slowed the exterior work to a halt, which, if they had of used less droids and men might have dragged this operation out for several days, maybe a whole week. I knew Zreame would be pleased with how much was going on and how soon she would get her little hiding place.

"Good morning. It looks like I'll be out of your horns soon from how the work is going. I guess you'll stay here for a while. Maybe we should throw a party once we are done, huh? What would you think about that?" I asked her playfully in the galley, watching the crew work steadily on her new home.

[member="Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha"]

 

[Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha]

Zreame came into the galley, wearing what looked to be a black tabard, yawning a bit. "AHhhhmn~ Mornin mhn~ what's for breakfast." She said with a groggy tone and mannerisms. She hadn't slept that well since the winds were able to howl a little through the hull and they had been particularly restless during the night. Her hair was all over the place and her tail seemed to just drag behind her as she walked towards him and then let herself fall into a seat near [member="Draco Vereen"].

The crews worked on the exterior at a slow pace, rotating the cold ones with others that had been working in the warmer hangar at a rotation so that the hangar doors would be completed at the same time as the rest of the get away.

 

[Laira Darkhold]

"Oh, I was just suggesting that we throw a party when this is done, before I leave. I'll get out of your horns once this is done, or, as things are moving along fairly well I could leave now if you like. Let you see to the final details yourself and get acclimated to the new place." I told her. She was obviously not a morning person, which was understandable given her habits. I enjoyed having her around, and she seemed to be interested in living here and Mandalore where we had built the executive tower that was the Headquarters building.

I stood up and poured her a cup of caf, "Do you take yours with milk, cream, or whiskey?" I asked her, as I prepared our drinks, pouring some whiskey and cream into my own. The wind howled a little bit outside. This was the first time I had seen her unkempt, though I had seen her hungover before.

[member="Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha"]

 

[Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha]

Zreame leaned forwards and took her caf straight up and took a sip. "Well I wouldn't mind it if you wanted to party but I think I'd rather just enjoy a day or two at my new home and then come back to the exec tower. Of course if you want to you are welcome to a celebratory soak in the hot spring bath I designed or is big bad [member="Draco Vereen"] afraid of water?" She said with a tired smile as she remembered and thanked her passed self for installing sound dampening padding around her bed room and the other four bed rooms on her apartment. The caf was a welcomed element. "Say did you get my designs for the foundation of the tower?" She then asked as the caf woke her up a little.

 

[Laira Darkhold]

I let her finish her caf before replying to her. I could understand wanting to spend some time alone, I had built a ship for exactly that purpose. "Then I guess I will head out today. Let me know if you need anything, I'm only a holocall away if you need me." Then she asked if I had used her designs for the Executive Tower on Mandalore, "Of course, and we implemented it when we started the actually building of the tower. Kyrimorut is fairly remote compared to Sundari or Keldabe and so the tower isn't huge. Only about fifty stories, with the top two being my apartment." I told her.

The work on the burrow was slowly nearing completion, and really I was just here to entertain Zreame in the first place. "I'll take the Indominus back to Mandalore and will see you at work soon." I said, standing preparing to leave.

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[Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha]

Zreame smiled and stood up, stretching a bit to get the bed out of her mind and muscles. "All right I suppose the assistant droids I had with the shipment should be able to finish up the last of..." She trailed off as she looked out the viewport and saw that they were installing the sliding mountain face which was the last thing to be done after the base had been finished. "Well seems my new home is complete." She then said with a wide smile and gave [member="Draco Vereen"] a hearty pat on his shoulder. "Seems you always know how to pass the time quickly... and as it seems are able to motivate the workers to get things done in record time as well." She said with a large smile on her lips and a gay chuckle at the end.