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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
                          "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?"

                            Jenwuf
                            Tharix
                            "Yeah, that'll work. What's the matter with it? Or is it just a bad system at the moment? Or does it just need maintenance?"

                                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 As Akio, Maya and Tharix have their discussion, STE Royal Fleet Command (Or whatever is equivalent - I'm American, I don't know much how Space Monarchies work, I'm sorry!) detects some huge anomalies within their territory. Upon closer inspection they are Rift-signatures, probably used by the Collective, but they couldn't tell for sure. What is known is that some sort of advanced peace signal is sent through the portals as the presumed fleets prepare to exit, but it seems to be taking a while. Any STE ships can use this opportunity to get out of the way, which is advised.

                                            RandomCommander
                                            STE Royal Fleet Command, alongside the STE pilots federation issues a public order for ships in the areas to move away from the signatures. However, a few small patrol ships stay near, but not too close as a precaution.
                                            A few civil ships get closer than advised, but are quickly forced to move by the patrol ships.

                                            (well, no worries XD. Royal fleet command, STE Command both are fine)

                                            MaxwellCharlie
                                            (ill reply later on pc)

                                                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.
                                                    image https://i.imgur.com/NpTOxaq.png
                                                    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.

                                                      Jenwuf ((Wish I could take screenshots of my own, but Drones++ and Automation++ are incompatible with eachother, making my designs kaput 🙁))

                                                      /Transmission Start/
                                                      "I would rather speak to her in person - If it puts you at ease, I have a gift of technology that could possibly help her and her subjects - you and your fellow comrades - against a threat that we have just been made aware of. It is important that we talk to her as soon as possible. We mean no harm, Effervescent-Blade is only meaning to defend the ambassador - me."
                                                      /Transmission End/

                                                      The Explorer-Class do not have shields nor weapons charge. The Assault-Class only have shields at full and weapons at half-power.