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MaxwellCharlie
"huh... well... i...
well, the others might not be that happy with a human around... but, you are not completely human, you know what, yes.... yes! this is it! this is the thing i tried to get to happen almost two months ago! get a human, or at least a non Tau to be in a position in the navy! or hell, diplomatic, ship design, anything! seriously, something like this could hopefully finally reunite Tau's with humanity again... well, although im suspicious of that idea, maybe... just maybe we can do this...

haha, anyway... that will be for the future, for now, you need to know that there are people more suspicious of humans than i, and its likeley that you wont be able to be... public so to speak, id have to start you out in some, say, shadow admiral, or shadow Ship designer, but, im sure as Tau's realise that you have helped them, you could easily sway public opinion.
So... what do you think?"

Tharix
He freezes. His eyes start welling up, but only just. "Akio, Maya, you're good people. Of course I accept." He steps forward, motioning as if he wanted to shake hands with Akio, but the mouse droid buzzes in front of him, causing him to trip, but he caught himself on a chair. This startled the droid, who slammed into the bag, causing some of it's contents to spill out. The head to an R4 unit rolls out, and the mouse droid squeaks in terror, thinking it wanted to hurt it, and buzzed away. The head, of course, was harmless, as it didn't even have a body, and couldn't even power up. "Huh." Spoke Tharix, coming up with dozens of ideas on what to do with that droid head.

MaxwellCharlie
Maya, being the person she was, immidiately got up to see if he was ok,

"oh my! are you alright, that could have been bad!
you could have fallen over again, and i really dont want you fainting on us again!"

"oh im sure he is fine! well, look, Tharix, i really have no clue where you can stay other than here though,
I think you staying in one of the apartments will just get you killed... as said, others really dont like humans.
and that would really not be good at all would it!
you could stay here if you want, this house was built to have room for many, many people
as you have likeley noticed that by now.
Ill have some more permanent residence found for you, but as said
at the moment, it is more of a shadow role you will have to play,
This really isnt the time to go announce i let a Human do ship design for us."

Jenwuf
Tharix
Totally forgetting that he almost tripped, he stared, catatonic, at the droid head. He snapped out of it half way through Akio's 'speech', however. "O-oh. You have a point there. I really don't want to be nuisance, and just... hang about. However..." He paused. "How quickly could you get..." He started, flipping through his blueprints, stopping on one of his designs, "...This, built." He held up a design for a small-medium sized ship.
"This would be a more open and hallowed out version I'd be requesting, because I'd be using it as a homestead."

MaxwellCharlie
"Hmm, i had not thought of making a ship for you actually...
Now i think of it, that might work...
Its been so long since ive lived in a ship, i forgot people still did that!
Well, ill have it equipped with our tech, to make it seem stolen...
Ill have to get Lance in on this. He is the only one i could trust to know."

"ha! that thing looks sweet, simillar size to the Illusion IV.
Maybe a bit smaller though, well! Even so, i can't say i designed my ship can I!"

"well, i suppose i better contact him now, before it gets too late in the day.
Exuse me for one moment."

Akio Proceeded to get up, and was about to leave the room, when he span around and spoke again.

"OH! could i borrow that blueprint, just so i can give him a idea of what it is."

Jenwuf
Tharix
Nervously, he handed the blueprint over. "Just be careful okay? These are all only copies." He picked up the droid head and turned it upside-down, inspecting the wiring. "Hmmm..." He stared taking apart the interrogation droid and began moving and adjusting the pieces to fit the R-4 unit's head. At one point, the head made a Boop-de-boop sound, but the sound died quickly and became distorted. It wasn't truly fixed yet. A few moments later, he looked at Maya and asked "Do you have any power outlets anywhere in here?"

MaxwellCharlie
"oh! of course there is!"

Maya Proceeded to get up and walk over to a small wooden panel near the door,
She lightly tapped it, and quickly the panel opened, revealing a room control panel of sorts.
After her pressing a few buttons on the controls, Tharix noticed a small, hole in the wall behind him,
Quickly a small Outlet emerged from said gap, and the Plaster like paneling, closed, actually revealing that the panels
Where made of many, many small square peices, that slotted together perfectly. Presumably, the result of many hundreds of years of Smart home technology.

"oh. you will have to find an adapter though, it might seem impressive, but really! after 2-300 years of this tech, we STILL havent made a universal plug socket."

Meanwhile, Akio was busy talking on the phone (yes, a house phone... Old fashioned tech at its finest)
To Lance, a top Engineer, in fact, responsible for many innovations on the very station Tharix is sat spinning in comfortably at around 1G.

Jenwuf
Tharix
Tharix simply said "Lovely, thank you." And approached the outlet. He somehow managed to get one of the wires from the droid head plugged DIRECTLY into the thing, and moments later, it began booping and bopping. "HA! I made it work!" The head, still attached to it's mounting plate, spun around, looking for it's body, which, of course, it wouldn't find. "Let's see what your registration number is, shall we little guy?" Spoke he as he picked up the still booping head. "R4-F88" He read, as it was printed on the droid's mounting plate. "Well R4, I'll see what I can do in the future to get you up and running again!" He seemed happier than earlier, but there was still a small amount of sadness in his voice.

MaxwellCharlie
Maya was quick to notice the sadness still remnant in Tharix's voice
And questioned him on it.

"You alright?
You seem rather upset still..."

Although, before Tharix could awnser that question
Akio returned to the room.

"Good and bad news,
Good news, Lance can do this for you, Should have the hull done by tommorow, well, it will be done immidiately, but transporting it from The Factory department to the hangar will take a while.
Bad news, we dont have any of the TIE hardware to put on the thing, so, we will put some STE stuff on it instead.... Well, it isnt really bad news, just... Not going according to the plan in the blueprints.
Here, the blueprints are safe and sound!"

Akio puts the blueprints with Tharix's other belongings as he passes them, and sits back down.

Jenwuf
Tharix
"Oh, don't worry about that. As long as it works, all should be well." Stated he. He paused. "Hooold on a moment..." He flipped through his blueprints and found something quite interesting. "Right here!" He said, handing some blueprints to Akio. "You'r friend... Lance was it? Well, he'd probably find this, quite interesting." The blueprints showed MUCH smaller things, as compared to most of the others. It showed a light turbolaser, a laser turret, and, most importantly, a proton torpedo launcher. "This is Tie weaponry. I hope it helps you with the... Anhysbys is it called?" He paused. "I just thought of it when you said you don't have any TIE hardware."

Jenwuf
Tharix
"Oh, I- I'm ok. Just... hard to accept what just happened... that's... that's all." He sighed. He then looked at Akio. "So, what made ya leave Tie?"

MaxwellCharlie
"huh, well thats an intresting one,
Well, i left mainly because the STE left and our differing ideals was too much to handle.
Really, i left because TIE never did much with me, until the end...
Im sorry, but them threatening us with their 'reminders' was too far, and so i left to make a point.
Id like to think i made the right choice as to what to do....
I mean, i have this place now right? and i got a promotion for all ive done.
But... No, nonono never would i consider going back to that place...
Well, we can't now can we?"

"and of course... the other reason i left is sat next to me right now."

The two Tau's looked at eachother, before looking back at Tharix again.

Jenwuf
Tharix
"I'm so sorry that Tie did that to you... that's... so sad." There was an extended moment of silence. "Well, is there anything I can do? I don't want to just be dead weight."

MaxwellCharlie
"well, i don't know really, with everyone being as xenofobic as they are recently, it would be a mistake for you to go off on some task... But, i suppose you could do something...
Well... What do you want to do?"

Jenwuf
Tharix
"Well..." He paused, thinking. "Is there anything technical I can help with, that is war related, technology related, or schematic related?" (Such as fleet commanding errors, miswiring, or blueprint issues.) He looked at the two Tau's, then at his little droid, who was terrorizing poor R4-F88.

MaxwellCharlie
"hmm, well i suppose you could help with our Ship cataloguing system, that would be of great help, and is something you could do now.
Sound alright?"

MaxwellCharlie
"Oh, well its just an awful system at the moment
Cant tell a 31-2-3 from a 51-5-6 at the moment!
It would be much appreciated if you could look over it and see what can be done at some point."

Jenwuf
Tharix
"Can't tell a 31-what from a 51 who? Please elaborate, Akio, if you may. Please explain how the current system works, or, perhaps, show me."