Two Old Friends

[Noah Corek]

GA Controlled Space
Fondor
Capital City
Pyre's Last Light

[member="Jorus Merrill"]

Noah smiled as he looked at the Bar that was in front of him. The name was a little solemn but it was a good one, well at least Noah thought. Using some of the money he had earned over the years Noah had renovated a bar that had been a usual hangout for Pyre and ODF soldiers and sailors. The outside was pretty noticeable. Neon signs in the shape of a few notable Protectorate and Pyre figures faces: Kerrigan, Alcori, Corek, Cira, HK, Merrill and even Pottegier, in which it was more his helmet than his face. The inside of the bar was decorated like you'd expect. Mementos from almost every Protectorate and Pyre campaign was there, from Bespin to Gehenna. There was a flag that had been raised on the tallest peak of Gehenna, a captured flag from a Fringe infantry company from one of the Protectorate and Fringe's multiple skirmishes, display cases with Bolters in them and behind the bar was a wall of pictures. Moments frozen in time from the years. Noah smiled once more and walked in, sat down at the bar and ordered a glass of the best whiskey.

 

[Jorus Merrill]

[member="Noah Corek"]

"Holy feth, Corek, is that a neon sign of my face?"

Jorus plopped himself down on the bar stool next to Corek.

"Thanks for the invite. Been way too long since I've seen you or Fondor. I'm thinking it's since you signed over your back catalog for Underground gunrunning -- or was it the time I had to shoot your business partner in the head for threatening my wife?"

It really had been a while. So long that he couldn't recall whether Corek was with the Alliance or the Pyre, or what rank he held, or even whether he still ran Hekler'Kok, filling the galaxy with slugthrowers.

 

[Noah Corek]

[member="Jorus Merrill"]

Noah chuckled when Jorus commented on the neon likeness of him hanging outside. "What's wrong Jorus? Don't like your visage hanging on the front of a bar? Or is it too close to Sarge's for your liking?" N​oah joked, also sending a bit of a bard at the not present armor wearing, some would call insane, mutual friend of theirs.

Noah put his hand on his chin and rubbed his stubble, contemplating Jorus' question. "I think it was when I sold H&K's backlog to you for the Underground. Last I remember. Though I could be wrong, my memory is getting a little wonky in my old age." N​oah joked, though he wasn't that old. Thirty-five was a pretty young age for most species, though when you were in Noah's line of work you tended to die young.

"​So how have you been Jorus?"

 

[Jorus Merrill]

[member="Noah Corek"]

"We got some good use out of those guns. There's Hekler'Kok slugthrowers in the hands of resistance fighters all the way from Chiss space to the Coruscant undercity."

Jorus flagged a waiter droid and ordered a Fondorian lum, his usual. Bit of substance, no intoxication. The banalities of ordering a drink gave him a moment to get a real answer in order.

"Been good. Alna and I found a little piece of heaven in Wild Space. Had to come out of retirement when the Black Rose infected like four billion people with a Sithspawn virus, a couple sectors away from our hideyhole. But the Underground and I kicked their leftovers out of the Kathol Outback, so that's solved. Problem is, there's some vicious things hiding out there. Threat-to-galactic-civilization stuff, you know how it goes. Worse than the Bando Gora reavers in some ways." The droid sped past with the lum; Jorus snagged the mug and drank deep. "So we're putting down roots there until the threat's resolved. If you happen to have a good ship and some time on your hands, we could use you. Vicious territory, the Kathol."

 

[Noah Corek]

[member="Jorus Merrill"]

Noah smiled when Jorus mentioned that his weapons were in the hands of probably thousands if not tens of thousands of Resistance fighters. Though he did have a concern to bring up with Jorus.

"​Jorus? Once the Sith fall, what's stopping the resistance fighters who now have access to massive stores of weaponry, from taking over and starting their own regimes?"

This wasn't some back of the mind concern either. Noah had seen it time and time again in his days in the Republic SFD. One dictator would topple a government, freedom fighters would topple that government and then when the old government tried to move back in the freedom fighters would turn on them and the cycle would begin anew.

[member="Jorus Merrill"]