Aurora's Arrival

[Miss Blonde]

Cartao, Spaarti Creations Headquarters

[member="Taeli Raaf"]

Aurora Industries, a company Patricia was not at all familiar with had answered Spaarti's ad about support for their new clone army project. As of right now they were still in the growing phase, they had collected all the genetic material they needed and were starting to grow the first batch of clones. In exactly one year they would leave their cylinders as children around nine or ten years old, having basic memories of how to speak act and operate flash loaded into them. From there they would begin their training under their instructors and start the process of becoming warriors for the galaxy to beat back the Yuuzhan Vong and droid armies of many infamous groups.

So with that in mind it was best to start getting their gear ready whether it was armor and weapons to ships and other general equipment for the clones to train with. Aurora industries seemed like a pretty good company for what she was reading over and they set up a meeting on the jungle planet.

All the woman needed to do was show up and they could begin signing contracts and going over products that Spaarti had to offer as well for her corporation to use along with the obvious credits they would be throwing their way for the support the company was to offer. But to make this work money had to be coming in and flowing both ways to make sure they weren't bankrupt at the end of the day.

 

[Aithne Charr]

[member="Patricia Susan Garter"] [member="Taeli Raaf"]

Solan walked beside Taeli, silent for once as he looked around at the walls and the items that scattered the headquarters of Spaarti Creations. He had to admit that this place was one he was more than interested in as he had begun work into gene manipulation without Taeli's knowledge. He figured he could tell her later when his tests were providing results. But for now he thought about if he could work out something with Patricia in terms of genetic cloning on the gene sequences he spliced and mixed.

Sure it had a mad science vibe to it but the thought of creating something that could combat Sith spawn but be created as a new genetic species was too tempting to simply forget about creating. His eyes ran over to Taeli now as he shook his head. Right they were here as part of the deal they would make with the red dressed woman whom he was unsure of Taeli's level of knowledge about. To be fair he wasn't sure what patricia did these days, his informants were slacking considering he had the better ones watching Genevieve and someone of unspecified designation.

 

[Taeli Raaf]

[member="Patricia Susan Garter"] [member="Solan Charr"]

Dressed in a green dress today, Taeli was definitely interested by everything she was seeing. Spaarti Creations wanted to develop a brand new era of clones, and just the idea of what else could be accomplished with such technologies was interesting to her to say the least. While they were a technology company with a major focus on ships, they did have other divisions.

Taeli herself wanted to begin developing new nano-technology and other things that were related to the genetics field, but she hadn't told Solan yet. It wouldn't do to say anything until they had some progress done, and today might be the first step in accelerating the project.

"So is this the same Patricia from Kal'shebbol?" Taeli asked as they walked through the place. "I'm assuming it is because you wanted to come as well for whatever reason. You usually don't like to come along on business unless it's blowing something up."

 

[Miss Blonde]

[member="Taeli Raaf"] [member="Solan Charr"]

Cartao was a jungle planet and the sweltering humidity of the planet practically melted the hardest of people, and today was no exception. When the two entered Spaarti's Headquarters, the seemingly massive buildings they would be confronted by Patricia's secretary. A small man who looked to be in his thirties and doing quite well for himself. Smiling he shook both their hands and spoke.

"You must be here to see Mrs.Garter, please come with me." The man said as he quickly spun around on one heel.

Escorting the two through the large structure they came to a large turbolift that played a rather soothing elevator tune. The man casually tapped his foot to the song and shook his head back and forth as he silently lipped something to himself. The little weirdo was someone Patricia enjoyed having working for her. The man turned to the two of them and smiled once again.

"Oh I'm Waldo by the way, but you can call me Butters if you want." the man said as he pushed up his glasses.

The doors opened to a long stainless steel hallway and a set of double doors that would lead Into Patricia's office. The man gestured for them to proceed on without him and hoped they had a great day.

 

[Aithne Charr]

[member="Taeli Raaf"] [member="Patricia Susan Garter"]

"Hey, something doesn't need to be blowing up for me to be involved in the business. I think that would actually be a bad thing if things blew up when i was around... oh i see your plan now." He smiled at her as he made the joking accusation of rigging things to explode when he was around just to get him out of a job. "Cant get rid of me that easily Redeemed Diathim." He smiled as the man appeared and started to escort them before in the end telling them his name. It took everything in Solan not to make a 'oh i found Waldo finally' joke... he wasn't sure why it even came to mind though as he now had no idea why he found it funny. But now, they were in Patricia's office. "Please tell me you got back into your old outfit just for us Patricia, then again last time you were in it some interesting things happened."

 

[Taeli Raaf]

[member="Solan Charr"] [member="Patricia Susan Garter"]

"Do I even need to point out the last company project you took part in?" Taeli asked, laughing a little as they followed the little man to his boss's office. He was an odd little man, who named their child Waldo in this day and age after all, but who was she to say anything about that. His nickname was also odd, but she would just continue on without addressing that.

Once they reached the office, Taeli was curious about the woman they were meeting. She hadn't physically met the woman, but she had heard she had a rather checkered past. That always made for interesting acquaintances, she thought, looking over at the man who had become a friend but had started out as a severe headache for her. Then again, Solan was still a headache sometimes.

 

[Miss Blonde]

[member="Taeli Raaf"] [member="Solan Charr"]

Patricia was not a physically intimidating woman, at all really. She was five foot two in her heels and an even five without them. So taller people in the galaxy often had to look down on her when speaking, but she was used to it so it wasn't a problem for her. But there was one thing about her that was extraordinarily deadly, and that was her beauty. The woman was twenty eight years old and she barely looked twenty one, this of course was thanks to anti aging technology that she used quite frequently. In this business it was best to look young so your competition underestimated you.

But when Solan and his friend walked in Patricia's eyes light up and she smiled at the man brightly. It was a smile that could melt the hearts of Sith Lords and remind you of eating a mouthful of warm gooey cookies. The blonde had the grace of a ballerina as she stood up and walked over around the desk and gave Solan a hug.

"Solan it's so nice to see you. You look great." she said with a small giggle afterward, her cheeks flushed a little at his comment on her outfit and she laughed once more a bit louder this time.

"I was a playhutt bunny Solan, you can find those images anywhere on the holonet. Along with a few other savory films from my youth but those aren't important." Patricia said with a smile and stepped back towards her desk taking a seat.

Her vision shifted over to the other woman in the room and she smiled brightly at the woman with her Colgate white smile. She eyed the woman up and down and decided she was cool, besides any friend of Solan's was a friend of Patricia.

"You must be Miss Raaf, it's a pleasure to meet you. Please sit down I'll have butters get us a few drinks. Can I get you anything specific? Trust me nothing is out of the question." She said as she crossed her legs and steepled her fingers on her desk.

 

[Taeli Raaf]

[member="Patricia Susan Garter"] [member="Solan Charr"]

"Tea please, Bastion Black if you have it," Taeli said, taking a seat across from the other woman. She certainly had a checkered past from what she had just said, but Taeli certainly wouldn't judge that. She had been a Sith after all, now she was a Jedi. Time changes everything eventually.

Solan hadn't told her much about Patricia, so Taeli was learning about the woman on the fly. She looked younger than either her or Solan, but looks could always be misleading. Her movements were graceful though, and Taeli could feel the Force around the area. The woman might be Force Sensitive, but apparently didn't let that aspect of her life run her schedule.

"So, the proposal you put out is certainly interesting, and Solan wouldn't stop badgering me to come and speak with you about it," Taeli said, a smile tugging on the corner of her lips. "Can you tell me what exactly you are aiming for with this cloning project?"

 

[Aithne Charr]

[member="Patricia Susan Garter"] [member="Taeli Raaf"]

"Hey, i never forget what my friends do for me and we are the perfect company to help with this grand scheme of Patricia's, and you are lying if you say you would not like the chance to work with a group like Spaarti. As for those Films Patricia, ill be sure to send a few to Lasedri and record the reaction, just for you." He smiled at her as he remained standing and looked for a viewport in which he could look out over the planet they were on. If there was none, he would inspect the office itself. He was odd, sure but he liked to keep his mind occupied while it took in conversation, he was better that way. There also remained the fact that most thought they bored him during meetings when he did this, though he was sure Patricia kknew him well enough to understand why he did it.

 

[Miss Blonde]

[member="Taeli Raaf"] [member="Solan Charr"]


"Oh won't that be fun." Patricia said with a small giggle afterwards.

"Oh solan one last thing, it's Erika's twelfth birthday next week. So if you want to stop by on Relovian to say hi I know she's missed you. Kincaid also turned three, he's just walking and talking all the time now. But enough of my kids let's get down to business." Patricia said with a smile.

Pressing down on an intercom a hologram of Butters showed up and the woman gave him a sweet motherly smile.

"Waldo could you bring up a pot of Bastion Black please, and a few waters for myself and Solan. As soon as possible please." Patricia said firmly but sweetly.

"Right away Mrs.Garter." the man said with a nod.

"So as you know droids are becoming all the rage in warfare, strong as a wookie, fast as a nexu, but with all that advancement they still can't have the instinct a human has. They don't have the depth and moral compass that guides us, and as you know the ancient clone program from Kamino was successful in combating these droids." Patricia said her tone now firm.

"We have Yuuzhan Vong, droids, criminals, all running rampant across the galaxy. I want to bring back the clone armies, I want to see them return to the galaxy to fight back and win. Droids are great for support roles but they simply can not make the calls a human can. They can be sliced along with dozens of other problems. So we've selected DNA from some of the finest warriors in the galaxy and we are staring the growing process as we speak." Patricia gave them the basic run down and knew they would have questions.

 

[Taeli Raaf]

[member="Patricia Susan Garter"] [member="Solan Charr"]

"You're talking to one of those people who produces droids," Taeli laughed, "but I understand where you are coming from. You can only program a droid to do so much. A clone would end up being superior in most ways, as history has proven. Although, looking at history, I remember that Spaarti cloning has some drawbacks that the Kaminoans didn't have. Are you suggesting you figured out what they did?"

If that was the case, Taeli's interest would increase even more. If they could replicate that cloning process, but perhaps at a faster growth rate until adulthood, it would be the start of a revolution in the science of cloning and genetic engineering.

 

[Aithne Charr]

[member="Patricia Susan Garter"] [member="Taeli Raaf"]

"Oh? Uh i dont really understand whats so important about birthdays but i guess i could show up and say hi. Its the least i can do to owe Romeo for all he did before he died..." He glanced subconsciously at Taeli as there was suddenly a pit in his stomach. He had forgotten for a moment she is the reason that Erika only has her mother now and was a tinge saddened for that fact. His own daughter lost her mother and he could imagine what it would be to lose someone like Romeo.

Once they started talking business his hand came to the datapad at his side and with eve he started to take down everything that was said in order to ensure not a single thing was not misinterpreted. Projects like these were beyond simple things. Especially something as ambitious as this and it made him curious.

 

[Miss Blonde]

[member="Taeli Raaf"] [member="Solan Charr"]

Patricia gave a soft sigh at the fact that Romeo was indeed dead, she truly did love him. But out of his death she got Jarven and full custody of their daughter Erika, and to make things better she had a happy and somewhat normal life with her husband. She was happy for the first time in a while and she could push past any feelings of anger or sadness, however she did notice solan looking over to his friend when she mentioned Romeo's death. She filed that away for later and would ask solan about it at a different time.

"Of course, as you know in the past Spaarti clones were terrible at being warriors this was because of flash training where their memories were downloaded then they had a gun put in their hands." Patricia said with a smile.

"We grow our clones to a biological age of seven. We flash video train them with the basics. How to read, move, eat, who they are etcetera etcetera. Once they are born they have three to five years of training as they mature to about eighteen years of age, and due to the clones of the old confederate Dreadguard program we've taken the cure for aging and inject them with it at around the biological age twenty. So we make the perfect soldiers with as much training as the kaminoans in about half the time." Patricia said explaining the process to her new partners.

 

[Taeli Raaf]

[member="Patricia Susan Garter"] [member="Solan Charr"]

"That is an impressive procedure," Taeli said, leaning back in her chair slightly. This woman had been married or involved with the Dark Jedi she had killed on Coruscant when she was still a Sith. Well, that complicated things a little bit more, and she wouldn't want that to hang over any further dealings for the proverbial ax to fall.

"My condolences about Romeo, I don't want any lies to be between us at all Patricia, and I didn't know he had a family," she said, deciding to head this off now. "I was the one who stopped Romeo when he was rampaging on Coruscant during the Netherworld event. He was liberated from his anger and pain in the end though, even thanked me for the release from his torture."

 

[Aithne Charr]

[member="Patricia Susan Garter"] [member="Taeli Raaf"]

He blinked and heard Taeli talk about Romeo, his eyes drifting to her as he smiled. He certainly picked his friends right where even the killer of another of his was trying to comfort Patricia for what she had done. He couldn't help but smile as he thought about it and leaned back to look at Patricia for a few long seconds before running his chin into his hand and smiling a tiny bit wider. "The aging, they will still experience increased aging or would the cure completely stop such a infliction that normally effects clones. I ask this both for curiosity of my own and as to its full effects."

 

[Miss Blonde]

[member="Solan Charr"] [member="Taeli Raaf"]

Every fiber in Patricia's body wanted to punch the woman across from her in the nose then tell her to get out of her building. She wanted to spit fire at the woman, but she understood that Romeo wasn't right in his final days. What with handcuffing her to a bed while the room was collapsing around her, yeah he had crossed over and gone full idiot. But that didn't make losing him any harder. So Patricia's eyes narrowed at the woman and afterwards she took a few deep breaths.

"I will never forgive you for what you did. I don't care if he was grateful or not, you took my children's father from them." Patricia then tapped her fingers on her desk.

"But I know Romeo wasn't right and you were only doing your job. So here's what's going to happen. If you ever say his name around me again we will have problems and the only words you are going to say regarding that are yes or okay. Now I'm willing to continue doing business so let's continue with what's going on." Patricia turned to Solan and tried to smile.

"It's a full cure, no side effects. They live full healthy lives." Patricia said kindly.

"Now as for Aurora, I assume you can produce the weapons and ships the clones need to train on?" she asked the both of them.

 

[Taeli Raaf]

[member="Patricia Susan Garter"] [member="Solan Charr"]

"Understood," Taeli said, content with what had been said. It was one more thing she had gotten off her shoulders from those days. "We can certainly provide the ships and weapons for your clone soldiers, in fact and I think Solan would agree with me, we could develop brand new tech for their use. We're in the middle of a massive project of our own to update and develop a new catalog of items."

 

[Miss Blonde]

[member="Taeli Raaf"]

As sickening as it was standing in the same room as her former lovers killer she needed this contract to go through desperately. A project of this magnitude required billions of credits and they needed to stop growing threats and waves of destruction in the Galaxy such as the Sith. This was important and she knew it and the Jedi In front of her probably knew it better than anyone else. So looking down to her data pad Patricia grabbed it and made a few changes to it.

Placing the pad on the table she gave the pad to Romeo's killer and spoke in a firm and strong tone.

"Aurora will receive access to all of our current and future technologies and a limited amount of clones, Aurora will also be given a fifteen percent share in Spaarti's shares as good faith that we are a successful corporation and we value the opinion of a experienced business woman such as yourself." giving the woman the contract it was up to her to sign and help usher in this clone army.

 

[Taeli Raaf]

[member="Patricia Susan Garter"]

"Agreed," Taeli said, taking a digi-pen out and signing her name onto the contract. While she regretted the events of her past, she hoped that eventually Patricia would forgive her even in a small way.

"To a hopefully successful partnership and great fortune for us both," Taeli said, sliding the contract back over to the woman in front of her. "If you ever need a piece of specific equipment developed or ship or some such, we will be happy to provide it."

 

[Miss Blonde]

[member="Taeli Raaf"]

"I'm sure you will." Patricia said with a little venom underlining her words.

Patricia still very much despised the woman at this point in her life, she didn't care what soul searchy Led Zeppelin stairway to heaven crap she did. She took away the father of her children and that was something she could never have back, it was something their children could never have. But Patricia for now would work with the woman, like she had much of a choice really.

"Thank you, I'll be sure to send this up the chain to accounting and acquisitions." and with that their meeting was just about done.

"There are guests luxury suites if you wish to spend the night here. I'm sure you are exhausted from your long flight." Giving the contract a quick signing herself she sent the document away and felt a small sense of happiness that they were in business.