The Rebel Faction

Rob smiled, glad the Cierra liked the building. "Of course, whatever you require we can do for you. We'll sign all the paperwork at Belgaroth."

As they came out from the turbolift, Rob smiled at Cierra and nodded slowly. "Of course you may stay. As long as you need you."

With that he pulled out his comm link and informed everyone that the facility would be under new management from now on.

"Shall we return to the ship? Or would you like to stay on planet and go sightseeing?"

Rob smiled gently as he heard everything Cierra whispered through his ear implant. He was going to say that for security reasons the facilities computer systems were not connected to the holonet and in fact existed within their own building network. After a second thought Rob felt it would be better for Kyra to figure that out on her own and impliment things as she saw fit. He was no longer owner of this facility so it was not his probably. What was his problem, was some of the data stored in the systems, which he instructed one of the IT personnel to quickly erase from the system until every scrap was gone.

When both with in the ship, Rob grinned at Cierra and motioned her into the pilot chair. "After you Cierra."

He took his place in the copilot and smile, leaning back into the chair.

Rob smiled as Cierra followed him. He really enjoyed talking to this lovely and intelligent woman. As they spoke, he could often pause and talk into his comm link to order supplies and what not. He also dispatched the ships to start the projects on the astromech facility.

"I'll let you access the catalog once we get to your room. Which is where we are going." He smiled as he paused and opened up a nearby room.

The room opened to a medium sized apartment style quarters. It was full furnished and contained almost every convenience one would need to reside at the facility for some time in comfort.

"Everything has been set up for you to stay as long as you like. Also if you would like to take out the completed fighter, you may at anytime." He smile and gestured towards the rooms interior. "Will these quarters be alright? The computer terminal has been opened for you to access the whole Stellar Enterprises catalog."

Rob smiled as he watched Cierra look around the room and laughed out loud as she mentioned Ishara. When Cierra leaned in ever so slightly, Rob;s heart seemed to miss a beat. She quickly pulled back, however, and he jumped smiled at her while taking one last look before leaving.

"Good night to you as well Cierra." He nodded and felt the door close a little behind him.

For a moment he stood on the other side of the door and placed his palm against the metal. This mind raced at what almost just happened. Had she really tryed to lean towards him? Perhaps she was starting to like him like he was her. It was somewhat confusing, but exciting at the same time. Rob has almost forgot what these feelings were like, but something inside him still hurt. Those memories of his wife and his love for her would alway be there.

He shook his head and looked down at the floor before slowly moving away from the door and towards his office. There was much work still left to be completed.


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While they were underground, the land above them was starting to stir with activity. Freighters from Stellar Enterprises were starting to arrive and disgorge many personnel to initialize the construction of more processing facilities on the land mass. Some of the smaller freighter landed close by, but the larger ones were starting to descend on the TaggeCo spaceport, which was designed to handle ships of their size.

Belgaroth would soon start to grow into a large supplier of reprocessed metals to the Core worlds. These metals would be far cheaper to purchase than by conventional means since money would not need to be spend in mining them and processing that raw ore and turning it into viable metallics. Plans were already underway with Corellia as well as Rendili for the purchase of these metals. Belgaroth would now also welcome the scrap that from the core worlds and deals would probably be put into place so that much of that waste metal got shipped straight to the planet for reprocessing.

Ilmus smiled as he strode forward in his neat and pressed Colonel uniform. He stood up straight and commanded the Nuknog men to board the ship before looking at Lexx. Beside him was a black crate, labeled CS-45. The case was locked and had a code pad at the top. Quickly a man ran forward and moved the crate towards the rear of the ship.

"Looks like it doesn't it." Ilmus smirked and looked at Lexx and followed her onboard.

He looked over the living compartment to make sure everyone was situated and then moved towards a nearby intercom unit.

"This is Colonel Stevenson, all on board and ready for takeoff."

"Roger that sir. Enjoy the ride."

With that the ramp retrated and the hatch sealed up before the transport rose into the sky and blasted towards space.