Yeah, this could work

[Miss Blonde]

Enigma Prime

Three hades class cruisers boomed out of hyper space around the planet of enigma prime, at the helm was no one else than the woman in red herself. Ever since leaving the ravens Patricia had been working for Arakyd industries, a company ran by the notorious Isley Verd. But she had to admit this job was a lot better than the last one she had, she didn't have to fight the sith or worry about being stabbed in the back by crappy co workers.

"Bring us into the atmosphere, I want us set up by the end of the day." Patricia said in a stern voice to her crew.

The ships dropped down and began to push through the atmosphere of the planet, the last time they were here it was to rob a giant walking city of their stygium. This time around It was more to set up a mining facility that would serve as base of operations for Arakyd industries. Patricia like this, no shooting or killing droids. Just a good old fashion build. So Patricia sat back in her captains seat as the ship descended down into the atmosphere the red streaks of friction and flames rubbing against the hull of the ship.

"be sure the base is ready to deploy" she said really only thinking about her kids

 

[Miss Blonde]

Patricia looked outside the window and saw the seas of enigma prime, it was quite beautiful to say the least. The planet had sort of an ugly beauty to it, and not like one of those little lap dogs that are so beautiful they are cute. But a unique beauty to it, something special to it. It was like a piece of drift wood that washed upon the sands of white seas. It wasn't pretty but it was beautiful in it's own unique way, the contours and lack of symmetry to it. Patricia let out a small sigh and looked at it admiring it for what it was, where Isley saw stygium and credit signs Patricia saw that beauty to it.

"Such a shame really." she said to herself with a soft hum of a song afterwards.

The ships touched down and soon Patricia would start composing the orchestra that was setting up mining operations on this planet. She smiled softly and remained in her seat, normally she was a boots on the ground kind of girl but that wasn't today. Today she was going to have a nice cup of coffee and relax as everyone else did the work and she relaxed, she had her fun of going out and playing in the sun.

 

[Miss Blonde]

With the cruisers above the ground they hovered over to an area that was known to be rich in stygium crystals, a large cave system near one of the shallow seas by the coast. First order of business was to dig the foundation of the pre fabricated base. It was highly important to make sure that when it was dropped it had a good solid base to dig into. So Patricia waved her hand at the first officer and he went off to have the drop ships load up and head down to the surface of the planet. The workers on the ground could start the process of making sure the base was secure, it was very important to the company that this base was established and mining operations were started up.

"Make sure you start to deploy the mining droids, we want to be sure we can start the mining process right away. I want a full load to take back to Isley." Patricia said to her first officer who then made it so.

Once on the ground the workers with various digging vehicles began to did a large hole about three feet deep and very very wide. Wide enough to encompass the foundation of the pre fab base, it was an easy drag and drop system and it was bases like these that would put Arakyd on the map to dominate the rare resources market. Companies like silk holdings and friends were still massive compared to Arakyd but they were well on their way to being a galactic competitor.

 

[Miss Blonde]

In the course of an hour the hole was dug for the base and massive amounts of dirt were piled into mounds upon the earth. Of course all that dirt wasn't about to be left lying around, it was good dirt and Patricia had an idea for it. Yes it would make a lot of men miserable down there but hey they signed up for this job for a reason and they were going to work, would it be fun? No, but it would at least be slightly entertaining for her.

"Be sure to have the men use that dirt to fill sandbags and create a perimeter around the base, I want foxholes every ten meters." Patricia said with a straight face.

In the hangers of the ship more drop ships lowered down and mining droids began to exit the ship. Small humanoid shaped droids carrying various carts and gear began to move into the cave where the crystals lay and start their jobs. They were to have a full load of crystals for Isley and whatever that stygium obsessed man wanted, really it was beyond Patricia but the woman was just here for the stupid amount of money she was paid every week for owning five percent of the company and working along side it as well.

 

[Miss Blonde]

The men sweat and toiled as they lifted out massive amounts of dirt In order to create the bunkers that Patricia had ordered, sure they were hating life right now but if a bandit raiding party ever came along they would be grateful those bunkers were there, and at a backwater planet like this Patricia could bet her fine hot ass that a raiding party would be along shortly. So Patricia made sure that it was well defended. The third cruiser began to lower down and soon the first part of the prefab base was being placed in the sub terrain section. The power generator, it was quickly placed beneath the dirt for the crew to start hooking up quickly.


"How are we looking?" Patricia asked firmly

"We are looking good ma'am. Almost ready to place the second layer." the first officer said.

Patricia nodded and looked back down at the planet. The mining droids had exited and were now inside the caves hammering away at the crystals, Patricia had no idea why Isley wanted them so badly. They were just crystals after all and it wasn't like they were going to do anything special besides turn something invisible. Did they have any other practical applications? Patricia wasn't quite sure but they had to of done something else, though turning invisible was quite a trick.

 

[Miss Blonde]

The bottom part of the base was constructed and the first officer informed Patricia of it's development. She gave a firm nod at that and would continue to press on in the development of this base, if Arakyd was to proceed Into the future then they would need outposts such as these to aid in it's expansion. A dot on every corner of the map was going to be needed and she was going to see to it the company survived through the ages. But back to the perimeter the holes were dug by the various crews and the sand bags were starting to be filled and placed down. They had more then enough dirt for the process and it was going to a hassle to get rid of all the dirt in general, at least here some of it could be put to use.

"Place the first layer down and start wiring everything up." Patricia said then was given a cup of coffee.

The droids inside the caves were still chipping away and now the first few carts of stygium crystals were being pulled out of the cave and onto the shuttles that would be taken to the ship. The mountain and cave system was rich with the crystals and they had struck metaphorical gold by finding them here. With enough greased palms one could find the locations to these from even the most senior and tentative of geologists. So Patricia just watched as the crystals were loaded up into the cruiser known as Coyote Hustler.

 

[Miss Blonde]

The first layer of the base was being lowered by the hades class cruiser known as Queen Bee, the cruiser lowered itself over the foundation and dropped off the bottom building with a small thud of impact. The ground shook and the workers jumped, but they had positioned the base perfectly over the foundation. So the workers came inside the building and started to fuse the foundation to the building. The other workers kept placing the perimeter holes and sand bags to create the bunkers for added protection, when it was over Patricia would be sure to throw down a few war dogs that could man the perimeter. They weren't the best for security but they would make sure any threats wouldn't come crossing in their direction.

"Ma'am we are ready to start setting up the guns on your mark." The first officer said with a nod.

"Excellent, be sure to send down some UDWs and war dogs while you are at it." Patricia said to her first officer wanting to make sure they were defended.

The droids bellow began to deploy to the ground and were ordered to man the bunkers and other positions. The mining droids kept wheeling out crates of stygium crystals and placing them in the Coyote Hustler, these crystals were quite expensive so Patricia would make sure to terminate any droids that dropped one. Was it a little cruel? Maybe but they were droids after all so they could handle it.

 

[Miss Blonde]

"Start placing the fortifications." Patricia said to her first officer.

The man nodded and made sure preparations were made to have the turbo laser placed down along with the other fortifications. Patricia took a sip of her coffee and the warm liquid heated her core, she missed her home on Ryloth. It made her think of mornings with Jarven before the kids were flown to the capital for school, provided a twe'lik education wasn't the best but it gave her and Jarven some privacy while the baby was sleeping. Mornings were the best, but that was a afterthought to what was happening on the ground. The first floor of the pre fab base was fused to the foundation and hooked up to the generator, the sand bags were filled and the bunkers were constructed. They were almost there.

"status on the stygium?" Patricia asked her first officer.

"Almost ready to have the hustler lift off ma'am." The man said with a professional voice.

The droids kept working and the crates and crates of crystals the droids were pulling out were being loaded up on the ship. They kept up their work as hundreds of them were flooding the caves, they were handling it well and Patricia was happy she brought them along. They were much better suited for this task until the colossal ones were needed to dig deeper into the mountain. But in a few more minutes they would be ready to have the hustler lift off and head back to corporate so Isley could roll around in them or whatever the hell he did with these crystals.

 

[Miss Blonde]

Patricia pulled up her data logger and began to text away on it, she sighed and was pressing away at the holographic pad. She was sending a reminder to her husband that he needed to build the play set in the backyard for Erika. They didn't have the luxury of having neighbors that would just come over and seeing how her daughter was a city girl much like her she made sure that her daughter would have something to do, along with her son who was growing up ridiculously fast. Patricia snapped back to reality when she learned that the guns were being lowered onto the pre fab base, the second set of stairs was complete now they had to just wire the guns on and connect them to the command center.

"Almost ready to send off the hustler ma'am." the first officer said.

"Have Queen Bee deposit her walkers. I want the all purpose walkers on hand In case we get any air problems." Patricia said and made it so.

The all terrain walkers were dropped off as the second to last load of stygium crystals were being loaded into the Coyote Hustler. Patricia was excited to get off this world soon and she was going to make sure it was well defended before lifting off leaving it with the relief ship Crystal Method. She just watched as workers sweat and hours passed, she was working and this was the price she had to pay to give the lifestyle she could to her family.

 

[Miss Blonde]

The turbo laser and other guns were placed on the building and they were pretty well defended, normally these bases were easily overwhelmed but with the added droid security and the bunkers they had a pretty good chance of putting up a very solid defense of the facility. The Crystal Method would serve as the collection point for the crystals and resupply point for the miners in the tunnels of the mountain. But the base was wired up and now all Patricia needed to do was brief the workers and tell them what was going on. After that all she had to do was go over a review of everything and it was as easy as pie.

"Launch the coyote hustler" Patricia said sternly

The first officer nodded as the droids finished up loading their crates into the cargo hold of the ship, and backed away from the massive heavy cruiser. Patricia got on the long range communicator and shot a holo message of herself to [member="Isley Verd"]

"Isley, we are just about done here. The product is headed your way so be ready for pick up." Patricia said swiftly then turned to the window to see the hustler leaving.

The ship shot up quickly and left the planet headed towards it's destination to drop off it's very precious cargo.

 

[Darth Metus]

Departing from doing business with the Red Ravens was sudden, but necessary. After all, Arakyd Industries had sat down with the former Vice President, and not the Twi'lek that currently reigned supreme. While this did mean the loss of a large customer, and a large flight risk to the corporation's holdings within that portion of space, Isley felt as if things would eventually work themselves out. As such, he set his mind upon the present:

And in particular, securing additional holdings for Arakyd Industries.

To this end, he had dispatched his new employee Patricia to set up a facility on Enigma Prime; and to procure for him some of the precious stygium the world naturally created. Ever reliable, the former Raven soon shot him a message affiming that the shipment of raw crystals was on its way. This was excellent and now paved the way for a project the Mandalorian had been brewing for a long time.

"Excellent, I'll have an escort ready to bring it in. Keep up the good work!"

[member="Patricia Susan Garter"]

 

[Miss Blonde]

Patricia received the confirmation from Isley and nodded at it, there was a sense of pride to it. She was being told that she was doing a good job, something that she never really had from the republic or the ravens. Everyone always just said confirmed or okay then took her for granite, the only person who ever really told her she was doing good was her husband. And well that was his job as her man, but this was something from her superior. And that made her feel valued and welcomed to be doing a job such as this, maybe she was taking the gesture a bit too far but it was just something she never had.

"Get the men rallied in the hanger, I'm going to brief them." Patricia said to her first mate

The man nodded and Patricia began to walk out the door of the command bridge. She stepped forward walking until she reached a lift. Once there she took the lift from the bridge down towards the hanger where Arakyd industry employees were being gathered for their briefing on their new home.

 

[Miss Blonde]

Stepping towards the hanger she watched a small mob of three hundred men all dressed in company jumpsuits gather around the hanger. She smiled and waved at them as she stepped towards a drop ship. Using the loudspeakers on the ship she grabbed the radio and began to speak into the microphone so her voice would be projected out to the crowd. It was going to be a quick briefing and hopefully these men could get down there and settled into their new home for the next month.

"Hello, I am Patricia and I am the manager of setting this operation up. Now I want you all to know that your safety is key for us. So I'm going to go over the rules and regulations of this facility." Patricia took in a deep breath then sighed

Over the course of the next thirty minutes Patricia would fill the men in on safety issues working the mine. Problems with wildlife, what to do in case of various emergencies. It was all very very boring and was really not worth the time it would take to write it all down.

"And that just about sums it up." she said finishing her long winded speech with a long sigh.

 

[Miss Blonde]

The men all nodded and chatted among themselves for a bit before Patricia dismissed them to go to their various shuttles to make it down to the ground. She sighed and began to walk back towards the lift just waiting to go back home to Ryloth. She did miss the city life but it was nice to get out of the system and have a half way living off the land experience. Not that you cold grow anything on Ryloth, she was lucky enough to get her trees to stay alive much less grow any good without having Jarven build a greenhouse. And of course Jarven would want to build it himself rather than calling in a contractor, but that was one of the reasons she loved him.

"Get ready for take off, we are getting off this rock." she said as she entered the lift once again.

The drop ships were depositing the men on the ground and the workers began to make their new home their own. They would be rotating out with another crew every month or two so they could carry on with their day to day lives and not work their little fingers to the bones. The drop ships went back up into Queen Been and everything was locked up and ready to go.

 

[Miss Blonde]

The lift opened up and Patricia stepped out into the command bridge. She moved to her captain's chair with the grace of a wounded dog, it was safe to say it was a long day of mind numbing boredom and other stressful things. She finished signing away all the release forms then plopped down into her captain's chair her head hanging back with her long blonde hair hanging off the side.

"Take us home." she said with a sigh once again.

The ships lifted up and shot out of the atmosphere. They leapt back into the cold blackness of space then quickly shot into hyperspace. Their job here was done and another asset to the company had been added. It was a long day but in the end it was all worth it.