[member="HK-42"],
((Sorry for slow reply, I've been busy freaking out about a huge Ethics project due Tuesday for the end of the semester, I probably won't be able to post much until that's over or Thursday))
Soon enough 42 would receive a reply,
"
You are speaking to a droid, the Lord Protector Unit 36 is currently aboard the supercarrier The Dancing Queen in the planet's orbit, you have permission to come aboard and speak with him directly when his current meeting is concluded."
Which would hopefully happen shortly after 42 would finish the landing sequence within the flagship's hangar so that he would not have to wait much longer.
[member="Jessica Med-Beq"],
Jessica would soon enough receive a reply,
"
Give us your ETA and we can set up a meeting time around that."
Simple request to finalize the audience with the droid while he dealt with other matters related to the Atrisia Incident.
[member="Nathanos Darksword"],
It was true that Abregado could compete with SoroSuub when it comes to manufacturing industry, but the Guild of Hammers was hardly expansionist, at least not until recently. Most of the products from Abregado were used to supply their own forces of those of the Firemane, the much larger company Guild agreed to be in partnership with as subsidiaries, an agreement forged between HK, Siobhan Kerrigan, and Tegaea Alcori, three comrades who fought together since the campaigns of Omega Pyre against Bando Gora, its goal to protect the Guild of Hammers and Abregado from foreign companies who could try to step in break their control while the droid was deactivated. However, during his slumber Firemane managed to secure some outposts and stations for the Guild, even in territories as remote from Abregado as Kathol region, and now that HK was re-activated he put in efforts to spread his company's sphere of influence outside of what used to be Protectorate territory.
Still, Guild did little to encroach on other companies' territory, their products were rather niche, shatterguns, droids, melee weapons, the sturdy Echani Graphite, they worked in very few fields when compared to other companies, and widening their portfolio came slowly, but what they did they did very well.
However, a project like a trade station in the planet's orbit was rather important for the planet, after all they did only had one spaceport, for security and control reasons but still, so whether Nathanos requested it or not, his representatives may just be visited by HK personally, that is if he will manage to get out of the other meetings before the station was completed that is!
[member="Faith Organa"], [member="Draco Vereen"],
Unfortunately the droid was not able at the time to greet them personally, while the two of them were strolling the festive canal-bound streets dealing with their kids, HK was high above the planet's surface, aboard his flagship currently in the orbit, dealing with the officials, prisoners of war, and the wounded. Hopefully he would find the time later on to speak with them directly.
Meanwhile, one of the natives celebrating the victory over Dominion would approach them, handing out a lei garland made out colorful flowers and feathers from local flora and numerous avian creatures.
The Gados were as welcoming as ever, it was in their nature to be friendly, and when faced with hostility or cruelty they usually turned compliant or passive unless faced with extreme circumstances, they preferred to wait out troubled times rather than actively resist them. Perhaps that was why the droid was able to form his regime the way he did, with a sudden crackdown against smugglers, pirates, and other types of violent crime, culminating in him dragging the unconscious body of a clone known as RC 212, the self proclaimed pirate Dread Lord, member of the Death Watch, who stationed his crew on the planet at some point, terrorizing the locals and conducting strikes against the Protectorate. That was until HK came with his army, executed his accomplices, defeated him in single combat, and shot down his starship over Abregado's Capial City when the Death Watch Commander attempted to escape, before pulling him out of the wreckage and shoving him into a transport. Perhaps Draco and Faith were familiar with the story, after all RC was the one who dropped a nuclear explosive on Keldabe, the capital of Mandalore, when the Sith tried to siege it, and after his defeat and arrest on Abregado at the hands of HK was when he was brought back to Mandalore to face justice for his crimes.
HK was then officially given rule over the planet and his title by the Protectorate as reward for his success against piracy in the region and delivering such a high-priority target before the Lady Protector. In the first months there was a lot of tension between the machine and his subjects, who were understandably distressed at having a droid for a ruler, a dictator at that who took his position through open act of violence. HK answered that by placing his soldiers on the streets, having them patrol the planet and guard it against any acts of insurrection or retaliation by pirates. For a while the population hanged on the verge of open revolution, and still the remainders of these initial days remain even during the high spirited times of celebration, Draco and Faith would be able to see plenty of armed patrols clad in old Protectorate armor strolling the alleys or keeping watch stationed at strategic points, often accompanied by spider droids with dangerous looking shattergun rotary cannons attached to them, the droid did not hide it that in the end he ruled the planet through military strength and total control.
However, he was a benevolent dictator, or at least majority of the population would perceive him as such. The initial tension that marred the beginning of his rule was soon relieved, HK managed to take control of the planet's industrial complex in its entirety, placing socialist democratic reforms to shift the focus from maximizing profits for the benefit of CEO and board of directors, after all he performed both of those functions and he had little need for material wealth, to benefiting the workers, using his connections to bring more industry to the world and as a result prosperity to the general population, the revenue his regime collected went into building homeless shelters, hospitals, public education, infrastructure, maintaining commerce and military, the military in turn kept the planet secure and the population safe. The army ended up becoming synonymous with law enforcement, even successfully repelling an attack from the undead forces during the Dark Harvest crisis that ravaged the Galaxy, being a soldier became a highly respected profession, and after HK's example his troops took up chivalric notions of honor codes, making it very rare for his personnel to abuse their power.
So while the troops were there, they could see some of them wearing the garlands much like the ones offered to Draco and Faith, some of them were chatting to the locals, enjoying something to eat, maybe even a drink, it was clear that after being such a common sight and viewed in a positive light from droid's efforts, the locals were more than used to the military presence being openly among them. The soldiers were composed of both droids and organics, usually in mixed squads, sometimes they had a droid officer leading organic soldiers, sometimes an organic leading droids, most often it was half-and-half. After all it did not make much difference who your officer was when pretty much all species were treated equally on the planet.
There were also many merchant stands set up along the canals, bringing goods to the festive streets of the capitol to take advantage of the crowds roaming it in celebration. The merchants were mixed as well, some organics, some droids, and while the mechanical soldiers used uniform droid vessels supplied them by the Guild of Hammers, the civilians were not restricted to such. Which means they would be able to see sightings like free war droids selling fruits or flowers, or an assassin droid selling balloons to children at the corner of one of the parks, or an astromech owning its own restaurant. Sure, it could happen, go crazy, sky's the limit when you're being ruled by a crazy old droid.
HK was pretty much like mechanical Bernie Sanders.
On one of the walls on opposite side of them Draco and Faith would be able to see a graffiti,
