The Republic may be falling, but business had never been better for Kiribi, as all sorts of new powers had sprung up all over the core and beyond, all wanting the latest and greatest in bleeding edge military hardware. Panacea was only too happy to oblige, as Ciana intended to grow the defense sector of her the biotech firm along with its traditional consumer divisions. Now was the time to grab up all those lucrative defense contracts while there was still some upheaval. Her mother wasn't too ecstatic with the focus on weaponizing technological developments, but she had, reluctantly, went along with her daughter's plans as she too required Panacea's arms to save the Republic.
A new commission had come across her desk from a Jedi, an Echani Jedi. The request perked her interest as it called for the requirement for a high-performance military android, modeled after one of EIC's EMBU units. The labs over biot and cybernetic research had been cooking up a new combat model with a similar profile, so the commission was something that Panacea could definitely complete in short order. All that was needed was to go over the specific requirements with the client to make the required tweaks on the base model.
For special, high-profile products like these, Ciana usually liked to meet the client in person. She had made arrangments for Miss Drayven to meet her right at the headquarters of Panacea, based in the administrative capital of Kiribi, Old Izrul. The massive glittering campus overlooked the sea, several artificial islands dotting the surface along the coastline. Many of them belonged to Panacea, each island housing some kind of biome for therapeutic procedures, research, and harvesting specially cultivated biomass.
Ciana hovered around the front lobby as she awaited the arrival of the Jedi. The tall Echani hybrid was hard to miss, even amongst the stream employees and clientele coming in and out of the building.
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