Morning Routine [D0, Morning, Strange Charm]

[Sharn]

"You are intrinsically inconsistent, Anion." Sharn remarked casually without a change of tone. "Just fly, build your mother's ships and helping in whatever we do are all their own priorities." He waved his hand dismissively at the data chip. "The ideas may not be entirely worthless but I can agree they are more art than feasibility. Still, there might be ways to accommodate even that fancy of yours, being the liaison of your mother's ideas." He twiddled thumbs. "Tyrus is correct that to come to the possibility of that, however, we need industrial capabilities. Something that no amount of debris may in itself ensure."

[Farkas Lowca]

Farkas sighs. "Not in our lifetimes at least. And... Farkas. I do my best to maintain security on the ship, but being former intelligence I can guarantee there is no such thing as foolproof security."

[Carmine Serthis]

She watched the goings on with very little interest.
"Fulfilling the dreams and wishes of one's parents are admirable, but this ship won't run on flights of fancy, and neither will my stomach for that matter. We need something stable, and the debris field is a solid start. Perhaps there's work for us somewhere in the city that's worth asking around."

She sipped her caff. "Perhaps we claim to be the foolproof security. We offer what the rangers refuse to."

[Syzygy Anion]

Zygy's cheeks darkened a bit. She had never suggested they do anything with her mother's designs. Not now, at least. It was the opposite, really. She was simply saying that whatever they did was up to the others, as her contributions would be limited. She wasn't an engineer or a scientist or anything like that. She was just a pilot.

[Sharn]

Sharn had no patience for persuasion, or any other social interaction for the record. The introduction had already run lengthy. He swang back to sitting straight.

"I want to appropriate the abandoned Sienar facility and restart it. Everything there should be familiar, they built their TIE program on KDY technology and personnel. Hence I want to haul down some reparable light craft from the orbit, fix them, improve them and marketise them for initial capital injection. In the process we ought to obtain a strategic investor and an approval from authorities as entrepreneurs bringing jobs to the planet. All the while working on the next generation of whatever craft is in investor's demand, civilian or military."

He paused. "In the end, it's all means to an end for me. I want a well-equipped research facility and steady funding with enough clout attached to it that I am no longer bothered by trivialities. The condition I enjoyed as the executive in KSE. I tentatively assume you are all intelligent enough to see your own aspirations finding fulfilment via this endeavour."

[Farkas Lowca]

"Reparable is a relative term, based on available inventory and tools. If that is the route we want to go then I should get started on a database for tracking and logging inventory. And, yes, you know I'm going to encrypt it.". Farkas starts back up on his fruit and hotcakes.

[Syzygy Anion]

"Ambitious, but I like it." she smiled. "Especially the potential to test some of the product."

[Carmine Serthis]

"That's just fine, Sharn. You do the labour. I'll make nice with the authorities and assure them we're here to cause no waves. I appreciate your compassion regarding our desires and well-being," she chipped in dryly, looking over the rim of her mug with a pointed gaze at the Chiss.

[Aja Fenn]

It would be easy to miss Aja entering late as usual, if it weren't for the hiss of the doors. Anyone on the other side of the counter would be forgiven for missing the barely over 2' tall (.6m) Aleena for obstruction as well. Not that she was silent or stealthy. Indeed, she wore one of her favorite jersey that morning, a gaudy pod racer's merchandise piece complete with official 'seal of approval' badge. Pushing a box up to one of the chairs. Aja used it as a boost to hop on up and take a seat. She had to hop onto the table first and drag over a plate with breakfast on it and hop with it over to the chair before sitting, but she was soon settled, munching away with a grin.

She wasn't going to interrupt. Besides, she loved listening, and breakfast had to come first!

[Syzygy Anion]

"Good morning, Aja." Zygy smiled.

[Aja Fenn]

Aja's cheeks were puffed out with a huge bite of flapjacks, but she waved a forked hand with a toothy smile at young Zeltron, taking a big swallow before offering a squeaky, gravely, "Mornin' Syz!"

[Farkas Lowca]

This could turn into a pasive-aggressive pissing match pretty quickly, so Farkas tried to turn the conversation towards something more goal oriented.

"If we're looking to try and claim the old factory, it might behoove us to learn if any other parties are interested. But we also want to do so without tipping our hand and letting others know we are. I assume that's well within your wheelhouse Carmine? I could provide slicing support, if necessary, for any records."

He waves to the small one when she gets into view.

[Sharn]

"We can begin with cleaning up the squatters and mine-trapping entries." The sentence was meant a acknowledgement of Aja's presence. It took Sharn some willpower to not lash back at Carmine, but he resolved to simply delay the barb.

[Carmine Serthis]

"Indeed, Lowca," the red snake acknowledge the accuracy of his claim, and then cast a short half-uplift of her lips that could be construed as a smile towards Aja.

[Aja Fenn]

The Aleena perked up. Cleaning up usually seemed to involve her area of expertise. "Do you have any numbers on the squatters? I'd prefer getting them away before I have to do any work..."

[Syzygy Anion]

"We can always go take a look." Zygy suggested. "See who's there and get a sense of the facilities."

[Carmine Serthis]

"That sounds like a perfect little project for you two. Run off and do some reconnaissance." She gave a quirk of the lips that looked more like a smile now, and nodded into her cuppa.

[Sharn]

"I find your collective resolve to deal with obnoxious things in the way of my intellectual work relieving." He commented, meaning Carmine's schmoozing with any local authorities in the package. He had no respect or patience for officials and politicians. Funding-wasting and -withholding fools. "The sooner factory dockyard restoration can proceed, the sooner you will benefit from my enlightened - what was it? - compassion."

[Farkas Lowca]

Farkas continues to sip from his cup. The two seemed to want to sling their barbs this morning. Perhaps bringing up a boring subject might cool that down?

"I've been doing some intensive study of probabilistic neural networks versus multilayer perceptron networks for use in artificial intelligence guided weapons systems. It's been an interesting topic so far."

[Sharn]

Sharn perked up. "And your hypothesis on the sharpness of bottom-up learning curve in either system is...?"