[member="Mrrew"]
"Fair point I guess, but we need to use every strategic advantage we can muster to find this thing. I just thought someone without a human nose might be helpful, because let's face it, human noses suck major balls." She chuckled faintly as her eyes rapidly vibrated to the switching screens in HUD, taking in thermal data like a sponge to water. The farther into the system they got, the less and less complicated it became. Naturally, the bigger caves would become more and more sparse, and allocating these probes into these regions would become that much easier every time they eliminated a branching segment that lead nowhere they wanted to go.
This was why Jedi had a hard time finding these things. There were the innumerable caves to consider, they needed man/droid power, specialized scanners and every other thing under the sun. If they found one today it was likely to be out of sheer luck, rather than any degree of skill to her testament. So far, it looked like this cave might be barren, but it still fortunately held promise. Probe readings were bringing back reports indicating that the initial biosignatures were not misleading. There were definitely things that were alive down here.
"Heh, don't mind my pompousness, but... duh! The probes are doing the best they can, and so far have found promising readings of bioactivity down here, but its minimal. We may just be looking at a complicated subterranean ecosystem, or we could be on the trail of the sleeping giant. Without reliable heat signatures, we won't know. Fortunately the number of large cave openings is quickly narrowing down to our inevitable conclusion. The path to our destination is quite twisty and windy, and hopeful estimations indicate we may be able to reach there within an hour and a half, give or take 30 minutes at a walk." She really was hoping they were lucky today. Even a portion of the 5 mil made her salivate.
Of course, if she just freaking finished Popo's order she'd be sitting pretty in 100 mil. But you live and learn. She bit off more than she could chew back then and now it was going to bite her in the butt. She still had three tonnes of material to hunt down, and she wasn't pleased with the quality of her last acquisition op. But back to the problem at hand, which was money making.
"Hey," She said in a break of silence. "If we ever find the Levi today, wanna make a small bet? We could play with like... 1,000 credits, nominal stuff. I'm curious to see if you think it will wake up or not when we arrive." A few probes were beginning to pick up faint signatures of heat. Which was exciting stuff.
