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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."

MaxwellCharlie
"oh god dont even get me started on the Anhysbys, bloody kidnapped one of our guys in Sector 3, damn things are--"

His rant, went on for quite some time.

"rargh just why do they shoot at things like that..."

Maya just sighs deeply

"Right, anyway yes, that might be useful, thing is though, i doubt command will allow us to make them. but... small scale should be fine."

"As i said though before Aki decided to go on about the Anhysbys for the millionth time this week, are you alright? You still seem quite upset about this whole situation, i mean who wouldnt be? right?"

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
"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."

MaxwellCharlie
"i cant show you properly without being in a ship, or at the command center, but i can tell you,
basically, we need a new system to identify ships via visual scanning.
rather than getting in range to scan a ship, we use visual identification with high zoom cameras.
at the moment, the algorithm is awful, and we need a new one."

Jenwuf
Tharix
He pauses. "Well, I have two ideas at the moment. 1: what if you were to have a system where, using gravitational lensing, you can see the entire shit, not just the side facing you? And 2: Similar concept, except instead of lensing, it uses a series of cameras at different locations, therefor allowing a three-dimensional model to be made."

Jenwuf Just as the last civil ships are forced away, not one, but TWO Coreships exit the portals, guarded by a vast assortment of large droneships and Subcores. One fleet is Explorer-Class, and is in the lead, but a much more imposing Assault-Class Coreship is behind them, with its own swathe of Assault Droneships - Light Cruisers and Heavy Cruisers mainly.

The Explorer Coreship is the one that hails the HQ:

/Transmission Start/
"Second Tau Empire, this is Reflex-Jacket of the Dimensional Collective. We are requesting to speak with your Empress. An urgent matter has arisen."
/Transmission End/

RandomCommander
//TRANSMISSION START//
"Affirmative, ill patch in a comms link now.
Unless you wish to speak to her in person?"
//TRANSMISSION END//

a small floatilla of Corvette and patrol ships drop from Echo cruise nearby.

Their weapons remain unpowered, their shields however are up.

The relaxed atmosphere in the STE command room, quickly replaced itself with one of tension.
And the crews of every ship present, and those in the command room, sat in silence awaiting a reply.