E1S1 - Assignment

Kala's excursion into the Engineering Bay was nothing less than interesting as various junk littered the floor in various states of assemblage or dis-assemblage and while the room looked like utter chaos she soon discovered that it was a sort of organized chaos as when she would ask what something was Gakli would answer telling her what it was, what state it was in, and what other parts about the room it was associated with. From what she could gather he had several partial droids that he was trying to make a single operational droid out of as well as various currently unessential ship parts that were in various states of repair. Apparently Gakli also had a rather extensive shopping list of items he needed in order to finish at least 80% of what was littering the floor. Still, there were plenty of other things that she could work on to utilize her skills and keep her busy but nothing currently critical just regular day to day maintenance kind of stuff which Gakli was more than happy to let her do.

The trip through hyperspace was thankfully quite uneventful and Kala actually got quite a bit of maintenance work done however her research into Duro turned up nothing on him other than he hired out as a navigator and nothing more. However, her endeavors did seem to turn up a buzz filtering through the lower register of the underworld contracts for hire network. Something big was going on as there were several recent rather high paying bounties which try as she might she could not get the details on because apparently the issuer and the target were being kept on a need to know basis and she was not considered someone worthy of that status. While that was not unusual per-sae to have more than one pop-up like this at nearly the same time from what appeared to be different issuers with such a high fee gave her the feeling the target was the same but who could warrant such a recent bounty. She was already aware that most of the higher-profile individuals of the Rebellion and Empire already had contracts out on them so who could be this new and yet this important. However, by the time she had gotten this information she was already out of communication with the Alliance so there was no alerting them or checking with them on who it might be, she would just have to keep an eye on it and see what she could dig up on her own.

Zane, while a bit rough and self-absorbed, was at least a fairly decent pilot from what she could tell and Gakli a competent engineer who like to fiddle with gadgets nearly constantly seemed to be good at what he did and the ship seemed fairly sound. Of Amalie was her normal self and she could spend some time talking to her from time to time.

Finally the warning alarm echoed throughout indicating that they were about to drop out of hyperspace which meant they were nearly at the destination. The drop out of hyperspace and the quick flight to Formos was just as smooth as the time in hyperspace but Kala felt on edge, something was there. Something more than that mysterious bounty or maybe it was that just augmented by the general atmosphere of the region but she could feel the undercurrent none-the-less and it communicated danger. Zane finally brought the ship into the landing area on Formos which was near to where they were meet now she had to put together whom she was going to take with her if anyone to meet this individual.

Zane begins to over hear what was being said "I must ask, your pilot..." then a cockpit buzzer goes off drowning out the rest and requiring his attention. A proximity alert which seemed odd and a quick check had him discover that another ship was headed in on a landing trajectory for the spot they were currently occupying. If nothing was done they might actually land right on top of them.

Zane's quick response and expert handling of the ships comm, shields, and repulsors allows the other ship to narrowly abort its decent making it a mere close call rather than a collision that would have meant time lost to making repairs assuming they would have been able to find the necessary parts.

Still the fact that this had happened so close after they had landed made Zane pretty sure it was just an isolated incident due to poor response time on the port landing registration and poor piloting something that happened from time to time on back worlds such as this. However a secondary check did verify that they were now on the landing registration occupying landing pad 4 so that should prevent any further foolish pilots from landing there while they remained on that register.