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 Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 6:40 pm
Helix stepped to the door to Docking Bay B7-994 and winced as he heard the door grind as it opened, the station crew needed to do a little more maintenance. He stepped through and felt a grin sweep across his face, when he saw the ship.
"Now that EllBee, is one nice boat." Running a hand through his feathers he stepped inside and began to walk to the ship. She looked to be in good order, at least on the outside, but in Helix's experience the exterior could be gold even while the interior was rusted out. He'd have to get inside and have a look before he really knew just what shape the boat was.
Still grinning he turned to EllBee, "Lets see if we can find someone to talk too."
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 6:45 pm
As Jag stepped off the boat, he adjusted hs cap against the sun and then noticed a blue humanoid creature with feathery hair and a small droid flitting about near it.
His hand resting on the grip of his pistol, Jag walked over to them, his expression blank.
"Can I help you boys?" He asked loud enough to draw their attention.
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 6:50 pm
Helix turned to the speaker, a lean and strong human male, and one with a hardy existance from the look of him. "Yeah, my name is Helix Lux I'm here about the Engineering Position."
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 6:56 pm
"I've been expecting you." Jag said with a nod of acknowledgement. "Jag Rohtul. This," He gestured to the ship. "is the Ruusan."
He flicked a glance at the droid then back to Lux. "Who's the droid? Am I supposed to pay him too or is he just property?"
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 7:01 pm
The boat learched forward hard for a moment, and then she was off, Kaleb climbed the stairs between the cargo deck of the ferry to the passenger, his backpack over his shoulder and his long coat billowing around him in the cool wind. He ran his hand through his hair and looked about for Niomie.
The ship would bring them to a small town up coast of Worlport, there they would get off and ride the sands to the city some ten or twenty kilometers away, wouldn't take any time at all, but Kaleb always liked the beach and he would savor it, perhaps show his new lady-friend what it looked like to have the Bright Jewel set into a horizon of pink and bright blue.
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 7:01 pm
"This is Little Bird, I own him, built him, pay for him, though he does have quite a bit of initiative and self drive. Thats what I get for using an astromech brain."
The droid beeped indignantly.
"Anyway, he serves as an assistant. Fetching tools, projecting diagrams, and the like."
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 7:03 pm
"Aint the question I'm asking." Jag said. "Do I pay him or not?"
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 7:05 pm
"No, you get me, you get him. Package deal, one price."
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 7:15 pm
"Right then." Jag took a breath and then walked over to the Ruusan to tap on her hull. "Well the Ruusan here is a CIS Akula HK anti commerce Corvette built during the war. I've had her for about 14 and she runs well for having almost totally been rebuilt. Now I recall you only got freighter experience, and thats with those Dalmorian Bulk Haulers. You also mentioned knowing something about Dac ship guts. Gonna have to say thats not gonna quite fly with the Ruusan here. She's a warship converted to an armed transport, and alot of the systems she once had've been replaced with parts from somewhere else. She's still got two of her PD Guns, her Double Shields, and her Jamming systems but everything else I personally had added. If you aint looking for a challenge you might just wanna turn around right now."
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 7:26 pm
"Challenge?" Helix Lux grinned, "I've been itching for the past six years to get onto something thats a bit more complex than those damn Bulk Freighters that a retarded kowakian monkey-lizard could keep running."
"Hell, on the last boat I was on I managed to double the ship's speed with a few tweaks to the ion exhaust focusing and containment, and I did that cause I was bored! I managed to escape a hutt palace and bring it down on the slug that threw me in there when I was just a kid with just my brain, my hands, and some random parts."
"I can handle your blaster cannons, ion drivers, and shield systems. Don't you worry about that." Helix realized he was ranting and came to a screeching halt. "Sorry about that, I just get a little miffed when people question my skill. I've got pride in my work, you know."
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 7:39 pm
"Just watch your tweaking on my baby. Ive already got her to the specs I want. Any further tweaking needs a written report giving me several damn good reasons why they need to be changed." He rested his hands on his belt and turned to walk up the boarding ramp. "Well I suppose you better get a look at her before you make your decision. Follow me and dont get lost."
As he walked he continued to explain the mechanic's job. "Now the Ruusan here was put together by the second best tech in the Galaxy and at great expense to the retirement fund I earned back in the war. She's got a Givin Navi Computer, a Krupx Club, CEC Engines and Maneuvering thrusters, Kuati armor plate, Fondor tractor beams and a Duros hyperdrive. She can dance circles around a CR-90 and mix it up with just about anything in her weight class. You'll be expected to maintain those levels of quality."
He walked into the Hangar and gestured to the Sorosuub Cutlass Fighter and the Speeder Truck parked there. "You'll need to fix those too. The Fighter is our tractor. Handles EVA repair jobs and can load and fetch things floating in space. No hyperdrive though. The Speeder truck aint nothing special, just an F-260 we use when dirtside."
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 7:45 pm
"I suppose interfacing all the different racial technologies was a bit of a challenge." Helix smiled, the ship truly was a stunning vessel, "What about maintenance droids and bots, I assume you have some."
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 7:54 pm
Niomie was leaning against the railing, watching as the ferry left its dock and moved away. She leaned there, letting the wind blow though her hair, which she had tried to straighten out after the helmet and wind from her ride with Kaleb on his supped-up swoop.
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 8:02 pm
"Shug Nix thought so. But as long as I fronted the money he did what he could." Jag said non committedly. "And yeah I got droids. You'll need to fix those too. Follow me."
Jag walked up the Hangar stairs to the second deck, took a left and walked into the workshop.
"This is the Machine shop. You can make and fix parts here. In that room is the Droid Garage and maintenance shop. Now we got a bunch of droids to help fix stuff on the ship, mostly Industrial Automation products. You saw the two cargo loaders in the hold on the way up, those're Hans and Frans. They're both CLL-M2 Ordinance loaders that came with the ship. In the Med lab we got a GH-7 Doc Bot. He's called Demagol, dont ask why. And we got a couple GNK droids shuffling about as well. Three I think. As for Maintenance bots, we got 8 R3 units, 4 R4's, 3 R2-D5s-those are the workbot versions of the mainline R2 series- and two R2 units. I try to keep them regularly memory wiped so I dont get any back sass from the lot of them. You'll probably want to know Binary by the way. If you dont, Ive boult a translator module into the chief of our Droid Resources department, LE-AD. He's a LE Model repair droid so dont worry. That one speaks basic. Now to the aft of the ship are the engines."
He started walking again and led the alien to he engineering deck at the rear of the ship.
"Now here are the engines. You fix these two here, then take the Turbolift up to the crewdeck to fix the third. Crew Deck engineering section also has a lift up to our Probe Droid Hangar where MAK-0 sits. You'll need to fix him too."
Clearing his throat he looked to the Alien, his tour over. "So thats the basics. Any questions?"
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 8:05 pm
"Binary isn't a problem, EllBee just speaks binary as well, so I know it pretty well." There was one more thing, "Where do I sleep?"
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