The Rebel Faction

Kyra and Jay met back with Cierra as she exited the freighter from her tour. Cierra was in a very good mood.

"I can tell you like the ship Cierra."

Cierra knodded.

"It's perfect. All of the necessary equipment will fit and there is plenty of room for the fighter to dock inside."

Kyra began walking next to Cierra with Jay following closely behind. Cierra seemed deep in thought again.

"What's on your mind Cierra???"

Cierra stopped.

"I just offered to purchase an astromech facility from Rob. It's for a..."

Kyra interrupted.

"A new home. Where is it?"

"He didn't get a chance to say yet. He also said we would discuss it later."

Kyra looked to Jay.

"Jay, we're getting hungry, can you take us somewhere to eat?"

The little droid beeped and chirped and began to lead the way.

"I will miss Coruscant. Leila has been a great teacher and Gordo has been.. well Gordo I guess!"

Both laughed. Cierra was also a little surprised by Kyra since she had only been on Coruscant for the past several months. All things considered, even though the business they did was dark, Kyra was accepted into the family as one of their own. The move would be for the best.

Rob smiled and nodded at the request for water and passed it on to a waiter that stood nearby. He watched the waiter nod slowly and hurry off towards the bar. The waiter was actually a man working for Stellar Enterprises and was here now simply before Rob did not trust the actually staff. This being a somewhat private meeting needed to be kept away from the prying eyes of Belgari citizens. Citizens who could easily be swayed to reveal much for the right price.

"What brings you to Belgaroth Mr.Tagge? Oh and call me Rob please." He said with a pleasant smile as he moved towards the set up table with Mr.Tagge and the other associate.

They sat just as the waiter returned and laid down three glasses and one crystal flask of water. Once this request was complete the man stood off to the side and awaited any other orders.

Rob listened carefully and smiled at Edipus after taking a sip of his water. He had already guessed why the man was here, but it was still polite to ask and also to confirm ones suspicions. While Rob wanted Stellar Enterprises to control the whole of operations on this world, he was not a fool to think it could be cheap. With Mr.Tagge here to do the same, a new idea presented itself.

"That is the reason why Stellar Enterprises has invested in the planet. I know we have not done business in the past, but there is always a first time for everything, don't you think? Perhaps we could put our resources together and get operations up and running in much more cost effective way. I have now qualms with sharing this planet's resources with the Tagge Company." Rob stated as he leaned back into his seat and swirled the water in his glass slowly.

"Do you think our companies could work together if we divided the planet properly?" Rob asked while turning his head to look out the nearby window into the streets of the city below them.

The people residing on this planet were completely oblivious that sky above them, two men from different companies were conspiring about exploiting their planet wide scrap yards for their own large profits. Rob also knew, however, that these people would benefit greatly from what was about to transpire.

Rob nodded in agreement to everything that the man sitting next to him was talking about. When large two companies competed for a limited space, things usually tended to get messy for both and in the end each of the companies suffered. This was something that Rob did not want to take place on his watch. Stellar Enterprises seemed to have enough enemies already and could use more friends.

"I believe that we think very much alike Mr.Tagge, which could prove a very good thing for a partnership to bloom between us. Extending this relationship would be most welcome by Stellar Enterprises. If you agree perhaps we could sign some sort of agreement between us? As well as an agreement on who gets what on this planet." Rob said and thought for a moment about what could be shared.

"Stellar Enterprises already has a smelting facility functional on the planet, so perhaps TaggeCo could control the gathering of the scrap, while Stellar Enterprises builds and operates the facilities needed to break it down and reprocess it before shipment off world? There are also two moons in orbit. If we split things fifty fifty your company could take one of the moons and we the other?"

Rob smiled at the man and gladly raised his glass. "To the Rimma Trade Combine. I rather like that name."

With a short laugh he clanked his glass against Edipus's and drank down the whole glass of water. "I shall my assistant type up a contract for us to sign in the morning if that is alright? In the mean time I should let my board know what had been reached and request for ships to arrive sooner that more facilities could be built for us. I trust it would be alright for my craft to use that new spaceport you have constructed?"