New start 15 Moving day

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New start 15 Moving day

James was in the kitchen getting his coffee to start the day when Jeff walks in,

Jeff: James I been thinking, that we need to get a couple M-2s for our fleet to protect Phoenix and Eagle One and the HQ,

James: lets hold off on that for now, I’m thinking more Fighters, after the pick up today we’ll sit down and look at our planes the decide what other assets we need, you want some coffee?

Jeff: yes sounds good.

Mike: I’ll take one, I need to clear my head,

James: laughs, what did you get into last night?

Mike: just trying to figure out how to get some time to work on the chests we picked up.

They drank their coffee, and waited on Sam who was dragging this morning,
When he finally arrived in the kitchen and grabbed his coffee,

James: after we pick up the ships I want us to meet in the conference room, we be going over our assets and see if there is any thing we are missing. If there is any one else that need to be their let me know,

Jeff: Chris and Howard needs to be their.

James: ok, lets head over to the Phoenix.

They departed the station and landed on the Phoenix, James was met by Chris,

Chris: morning, the ships have been transferred and the cap is scheduled to leave in 20 mizuras,

James: ok, and follows Chris to the mess hall,

As they enter the mess hall James was meet by Randy ,

Randy: James can we get 2 more escort for to day we’ll be going to Ore Belt to make some deliveries of Crystals?

James: sure take 4 and keep me advised,

Randy: roger

James sat down with Chris, Mike I’m letting Randy take 4 extra escorts to day make sure he takes some good ones,

Mike: ok

Henry: Mr. Hawk what can I get you for breakfast?

James: call me James and I would like a double western omelet with ham and toast,

Henry: yes sir, and leaves

Chris: we will be ready to Jump in ¾ stazuras

James that will be fine, have you had breakfast?

Chris: yes a stazura ago. I be on the bridge if you need me.

James: ok

Henry: delivers breakfast orders refills the coffee cups and places a new carafe of coffee on the table, then asks if there will be anything else? and leaves

After breakfast, James: I going to the bridge,

Mike: I’ll be in the repair bay if you need me.

Jeff: wait up I’ll go with you.

Sam: Mike can I watch?

Mike: sure

James and Jeff head to the bridge, as they enter Chris: were ready the CAP is on Eagle One the escorts just departed to link up with the TP’s, Your orders?

James: Jump to KE.

Chris: Charge Jump drive,

Nichols: charging ready

Chris: Jump

Nichols: Jumping. Entering Sector Kingdoms End, course set for ship yard,

Chris: dock

Nichols: docking granted proceeding to dock, docked,

James: I’m going to go and meet Salas,

Jeff: I’ll go with you.

James & Jeff left the ship Salas was waiting for them,

Salas: Good to see you again Mr. Hawk

James: Salas my friend you never cease to amaze me.

Salas: Its my job no!

James: here is my data pad what do you have for me?

Salas: much your 4 upgraded ships and 10 New ones Plus I have just finished 2 super transports,

James: wonderful, and would you have any more of the custom passenger cabins like I got before?

Salas: I will check, Yes I have 4 would you like me to have 2 of them loaded into the transports ?

James yes, and can I have the others to be put in the next batch of ships?

Salas: I can do that 44 mil for the ships and 500, thousand ea for the cabins 2 mil 46 mil credits I will deduct this ok,

James: deduct 100 Mil credits, and do you need any Falcons?

Salas: I don’t need any but maybe I can sell them,

James: ok I will unload them,

Jeff I’ll take care of that where do you want them parked?

Salas: dock 1c

Jeff: ok

Salas: the Ships are parked on pad H, I will take you we still have security on them,

James: let me call for my pilots, Chris I need 14 Pilots and 2 TP Pilots and prepare to receive the ships,

Chris: Roger

Within 3 mizuras the pilots started exiting the Phoenix, with Jeff and Sam following them,

James: the ships are parked on H pad follow us, and James and Salas led the way,

Once on the pad Jeff and Sam took the pilots and showed them the ship to fly as they downloaded the AI program and verified the registration,

James: waited while Salas completed the transaction and registered the registrations to Hawk Security Service Inc.

Salas: handed the data pad back to James, thank you I hope to see you in 1 Wozura ok.

James: That would be fine,

James: returned to the Phoenix, and watched as the ships arrived and were secured. When the 2 transports were docked,

Jeff: all ships are loaded and secure,

James: ok lets go to the bridge, as they entered the bridge

James: Chris were ready to go back to PC,

Chris: roger prepare to undock.

Nichols: undocking, departing, station cleared, jump drive charging, ready

Chris: Jump to PC

Nichols: Jumping, entering sector Power Circle,

James: Chris would you like to go with me to the HQ?

Chris: sure

James led the way to his ship and entered, strapped in Chris strapped in to the copilot seat, Jake land on the HQ,

Jake: roger, hatch secured, departing ship, approaching HQ, entering station, docking, opening hatch,

James: Jake see if you can sell the capped ship, and excess goods, James departs the ship, joins Chris, Jeff, Mike and Sam on the landing pad,

Mike: I was able to open 5 of the security chests, some interesting stuff in them, I found a data pad with Argon encryption codes in it Commander Dana may want to see it,

James: contact him, then take it to him, maybe he can identify the leak source. Lets see if we can find Harold,

They headed to the command center, James noted that the drones were still putting up walls in the main corridor, they entered the lift and went down to the command center, Thresica was there with Harold, and three people that James had not met,

Thresica: James I want you to meet our station managers, Dorothy Turner and
Scott Hill ,

James: Good to meet you and welcome to our family,

Dorothy: this is a beautiful station, Thresica has told us what you want, and I think that we can make the station successful,

James: wonderful, our security personnel should be arriving late to day,

Thresica: some have all ready shown up and I have started assigning living areas according to family sizes.
James: good I want to start moving in our people from the ships also, are the external docking port operational?

Scott: yes they are 4 of them any way the other 4 will be operational tomorrow,

James: good that will make moving people around easer, Scott have you been through the station,?

Scott: yes were thoroughly briefed by the Capt and shown the station the Capt. left with your Capt Harold and his people.

James: would you help me locate them,

Scott: sure switches thru the monitors finds them entering the power room, There down in generator room, follow me.

They enter the lift and Scott puts a security card in the slot and presses the floor he wanted the lift descends down to S25, and the doors open, we exit the lift and turn left down the hall then right at the next junction to the seconded door on the left and Scott inserts his card and the door opens, we enter and join Harold and his group,

James: Just thought I join you and see what I can learn about the Station.

The Capt greets me and say he has some access cards for me,

James: Yes I see hat you can’t get far with out one.

Capt: and after to day you will only be able to enter the Landing pad and the 2 Sales floors with out one. And the sub levels will require a hand scan and Eye Scan,

James: who will be setting that up?

Scott: I will be coming around with a portable scanner later to get them from our people, and assign access levels.

James: let me know if you need any help.

Scott: I have 4 personnel to help me, we should be done today, I will have some on the docking bay registering personnel as they arrive.

James: good plan. How many station personnel have you got?

Scott: 50 so far excluding Security Personnel.

James: how many personnel do you need to run the station?

Scott: 250 Min and up to 500 the section managers will be selecting their personnel and sending the Information to Thresica,

James: good I will have Thresica keep me updated when do I get to meet your section mangers?

Scott: that was planed for this evening.

James; I see, then he listened in on the information being given to the engineers, and Scott headed back to the Ops center.

James’ comms buzzed, he opened it, Yes, ok were are you, if I can find my way there, if you don’t hear from me in 10 Mazuras send a search party.

James entered the Op center Scott Handed him a scanner,

Scott; look into the eye piece and place your hand on the pad.

James did and after a few seconds the scanner beeped,

Scott then ran a card thru the scanner card reader, the machine beeped again and Scott handed the green card to James Here your access card,

James took the Card it had his picture and his name on it. He put it in to his breast pocket, That didn’t take long.

James: Dorothy how long till we are fully operational?

Dorothy: If I can get my personnel here I’d say three or four Tazuras.

James: Have you decide where I will be staying?

Thresica: I’ve got your Suite card right here, and hands him a gold card that also had his picture and name on it, it was, Ill show you where it is ok

James took the card and followed Thresica to the lift,

Thresica: swipe your room card,

James swiped his card and the lift took off, when it stopped it announced Penthouse Suite.

James followed Thresica out of the lift into a round corridor Counted 24 doors around the corridor,

Thresica pointed to the door facing the lift, This is your new home.

James walked to the door and swiped his gold card, the door slid open, and James walked in with Thresica on his heals.

James: this is very nice, he walks into the living room, there were 4 lounge chairs and three couches a large screen that rotated with a wet bar on the other side, then headed to the kitchen, it was well decorated and furnished, then James headed toward the master bed room it had a king size bed a seating area complete with a viewing screen, The communications station was located off of one of the lg closets there was a lg vault and a goner transporter, the closet was stocked with linens, the other walk in closet had James clothes in it, when did you have my stuff moved?

Thresica: this morning but there are still some left on the station.

James: you are amazing, I’ve got a surprise for you too Hawk 5 is yours,

Thresica : gave James a hug, thank you ,thank you, I don’t know when Ill get a chance to fly I’ve been purity busy, and will be for the next 3 Tazuras,

James: we’ll find time. he headed to the master bath, use the facilities then headed out to the living room, Thresica has the vault been cleared on the trading station?

Thresica, no not yet.

James: good lets keep it that way till the lease is up,

Thresica: ok.

James: toured the other bead room it was as nice as the master bed room, had to walk in closets and a bath that was slightly smaller then the M-bath but was nicely done,

James: I think this will do nicely, who else will be on this floor?

Thresica, Mike, has the suit to the left of yours Jeff has the one on the right then Sam, Then Dorothy Turner then Scott Hill, on the other side of Mike we have Me then Chris, then Harold and Tony Brock two of the suits are for guest, there is still 11 suites open. No one without the gold card is allowed on this floor, there are sensors that will detect any one with out a card. Even the druids that service this floor have special sensors, same down in the personal quarters
The three main floors are open the rest have sensors, that will help in protecting the station and its guests,

James: sounds like a good plan.

James & Thresica left the apt, and road the lift down to the landing bay, were Jeff and Mike were checking out the bay and storage areas,

Jeff: James we have a marvelous repair bay and plenty of storage area, how many ships do you want me to dock here?

James: I think ten for now that way we can run the cap from here, we can dock our craft here too, and have Hawk 5 send over for Thresica,

Thresica: could you put my call sign “Green Eyes” on the sides?

Mike: I think that can bee done.

James: have you seen your rooms,

Jeff: no not yet,

Mike: no haven’t had time,

James: I think you will be pleased. with them.

James: I’m going to the station, for lunch, Thresica want to join me?

Thresica: sure lets go,

They entered the ship, James strapped in , Jake lets go to the station.

Jake roger, hatch secured, undocking, departing station, docking, entering station, landing, docking clamps secured, hatch open,

James & Thresica departed the ship, and headed to the lounge.

As they entered the lounge Mary greeted them and led them to the private dining room. Pored them coffee and took their orders.

James & Thresica spent nearly ¾ stazura eating lunch and talking about the station. Then they headed to the office,

Anjanette: Thresica you have some people waiting in the conference room for you.

Thresica: ok I’ll go in there shortly,

James: I’ve got some work to do in the landing bay call me if you need me, then turned and headed to the landing bay, and meet up with Mike who was working in the repair area.

Mike: I’ve gotten in two three more of these boxes just three more to go.

James find any thing?

Mike: four blasters, 2,378,481cr 3 data pads that I haven’t checked out and 1 command software package that I cant identify.

James: good work, have you heard from Jeff?

Mike: he said he was going to move his things over to the HQ,

James: ok Ill be in my ship if anything comes up.

Mike: ok see ya later.

James entered his ship, Jake how many ships do we still need to sell,

Jake: we still have 4 falcons and 3 Dolphins to sell, and 30,000 crystals.

James: Hold off on the Dolphins for now, sell the others and the crystals.

Jake: roger

James: Jake prepare to depart and dock on Eagle One,

Jake: Hatch secured, undocking, departing station, approaching ship, entering landing bay, docked, Hatch open.

James departed the ship, and went to the bridge. Harold, how long will it be till your ready to pick up a station and deliver it to HOL.

Harold: the ship upgrades will be finished tomorrow, then we can jump to AP and pick up the station, if its ready,

James: Ill contact the ship yard and see how long will it take, I’ve released Josh’s TL, it should be leaving to day. Ill let you know when the station will be ready for pick up. James left the bridge and headed back to his ship.

James entered the ship, Jake contact AP ship yard and order a wheat farm and add an repair bay and extra docking area,

Jake: roger, 4 mizuras later, station coast 467,452 cr Repair Bay 221,200 cr extended docking bay 169,786 cr total 858,438 cr time to prepare, 20 Stazuras, do you want me to order the station?

James: yes order the station, send message to Harold with the purchases order.

Jake: station ordered, message sent,

James: lets go to the HQ,

Jake: hatch secured, departing ship, approaching station, entering station, docking, hatch open,


James departed the ship, went down to the OP Center, entered asked Dorothy if she had seen Jeff,

Dorothy: yes he’s in the repair bay,

James: have you gotten all of your personnel yet?

Dorothy: yes and most of the security people have reported in, I think we will be fully operational by tomorrow, then we start opening shops.

James: that’s wonderful, lets just bring in cargo that’s not already in sector, ok

Dorothy: that is the plan for now.

James: I am going to talk to Jeff, see you later, James left the OP center and headed to the repair bay. Upon entering the repair bay James found Jeff working on a weapon system,

James: how is it going?

Jeff: I have found a way to increase the out put energy on the Sparrows weapon system, and a faster recharge, I think it will be able to bring the engaged ships shields down faster, and enable the on board AI to eject the pilot, and capture the ship with less damage to the hull.

James: that’s good but I don’t want our pilots to think they are fighters, Is there a way to perform those upgrades on our Fighters?

Jeff: I just want our Pilots to be able to defend them self’s and to cap ships for defense, I haven’t looked at the weapons systems on the fighters, The principles should work

James: I wanted to tell you that I ordered a wheat farm for HOL, Eagle One will pick it up tomorrow and take it to HOL I need you to contact their sector development and find a good location for it before its delivered. Try to get a position near the east gate between the two bakeries.

Jeff: I contact them shortly and fly there tomorrow morning.

James: ok , how do you like your new home?

Jeff: its wonderful a little large but I’ll get use to it. Now that I can bring my girl friends in without all the harassment.

James: I didn’t know that we bothered you that much.

Jeff: I know, but just the same I can have my privacy now.

James: Dorothy tells me that the station will be fully operational tomorrow also, and that she will start letting in venders, Do you know of any suppliers that need space? I’m going to ask Umbel if she will consider placing an outlet here. We have a lot of people that will need Jackets and flight suits, and general clothing.

Jeff I think Susan will want an shipping extension here, and we can set up a shop or two to sell goods.

James: sounds good, Ill see you later I’m heading to the wall to talk to Umbel, I should be back for dinner.

James entered his ship, Jake lets depart and go to the wall trading station.

Jake: Hatch secured, undocking, departing station, Preparing to jump, Jumping, approaching station, entering station, docking, hatch open,

James departed the ship and went to Umbel’s shop, waited for Umbel to finish with the customer she was helping,

Umbel: hello James how can I help you?

James: tell me yes.

Umbel: tell you yes to what?

James: that you will open shops in my stations.

Umbel: I don’t know, lets go to my office and we can discuss this.

James follow umbel to her office, and took a seat on the sofa.

Umbel took a seat in her chair, Now James please explain what you are talking about.

James: well I have a HQ station in Power Circle with Shops for rent, that we will start opening for Venders tomorrow, and I am having a wheat farm that will be located in Home of Light that will have shops, I want to offer you two spaces for your goods, and I will Provide the transport to carry the goods from here to them, and help with security arrangements for the shops and shipping, If you will take me as a partner and give me 40% of the profits that you get from those stations, that leaves you 60% just to order or make the Items for sale, and to help me find some tailors to work for Us

Umbel: That sounds good James and we have been getting a lot of orders, I was thinking about getting a larger place to set up a manufacturing company, and shipping department, your offer couldn’t have come at a more opportune time, Id have to send one of my daughters to run the manufacturing plant. Can I give you my answer tomorrow?

James: yes just sent me a message or contact Thresica, I hope you will take it, Ill do every thing possible to help get them started.

Umbel: I know you will, and I am grateful that you offered this to me first, I’ll give you my answer tomorrow, I Promise.

James: till tomorrow, I’ll be waiting, Bye. James got up and gave Umbel a hug and left,
When he got to his ship, he sat in the pilot seat wondering how thing were going to turn out, Jake lets go home, let me know when we dock.

Jake: roger, Jake closed and secured the hatch, requested departure clearances undocked and departed the station, when he was 15 km away from the station, he requested gate clearances and jumped to TW, and headed to the HQ entered and docked opened the hatch,

Jake: were home. And I have sold the 4 falcons, (James had fallen asleep, Jake had to increase the volume and call him three times before he got a response from him)

James: what o ok,

Jake: I said were home and I have sold the 4 falcons.

James good what time is it?

Jake: 6:50 PM local,

James I’ve got to hurry we need to go to the carrier for dinner,

Jake OK stay seated and we will be there in 4 Mizuras.

James ok

Jake secured the hatch and departed the station and landed on the Phoenix, and opened the hatch, James were on the carrier,

James unbuckled his harness and left the ship, went to the mess hall and sat down with Chris, Mike and Jeff,

James: I just got back from Umbel’s and she will give me an answer tomorrow about opening shops in our HQ and wheat farm.

Mike: Jeff mentioned that, have you decided what other good we will offer ?

James: not yet thought you mite have some Ideas.

Mike: I like to see an electronics shop, and maybe an armory, How about a Casino, and some food shops, and a Jewelry shop.

James: slow down I’m havening trouble keeping up with you.

Thresica: walked up a jewelry shop that sounds like a good ideal a clothes shop would be good too.

James I have talked to Umbel about that she give us an answer tomorrow.

Thresica: that’s wonderful.

Maria: Can I take your order

Thresica: I’ll Have an argnu stake sandwich medium well with Fries, and a cola.

James: the same with coffee and make it well done please,

Jeff: that sounds good the same well done with a salad and coffee

Mike: I’ll have a chief salad with house dressing and coffee

Chris: a chief salad with ranch dressing and coffee

Maria filed the cups with coffee and passed them out then left.

Chris: James are you going to be able to get another replicater from Josh?

James: I hope so.

Maria: returned with Thresica’s drink then left.

Mike: I got into the data pads, and I found two locations of hidden ships that supposedly has a lot of goods on them, one is located in Split Fire, the other is located in Danna’s Chance. And I did get 1 of the storage boxes open, It had 32,561,932 Gold credits in it and 3 blasters and some drugs that I destroyed , the credits are in your vault, along with the blasters, I also had the old vault emptied out and the contents moved to the new vault.

James: Very good, Jake told me that he sold the 4 falcons, can I have him sell the dolphins now?

Mike: mite as well we don’t need them.

Jeff: yes sell them, and lets see if we can get more of the super transports, their doing a wonderful job and they can take care of them self’s.

James: ok I’ll tell Jake to sell them, Chris you ready for another adventure?

Chris: sure just say when,

James: tomorrow morning 07:00 local,

Jeff: I have to go to HOL in the morning I got the clearances from sector management, they want me to show them the location for the wheat farm at 09:00 local.

James: if we wait till later we might have some problems, you know the pirates sleep in till 11:00 or so, that’s why we need to start early. Tell you what jump to S F after your are done in HOL and link up with the carrier, Mike will give you the location.

Maria returned with their meals and refilled the coffee cups, then left

Chris: the ships have been sent to the HQ, and Eagle One I only have My two strike teams on board,

James: that should do, I’ll be on board Mike will be with the boarding team Sam will be on board and Mikes Ship will be on board how many escorts do we have tomorrow?

Thresica: 4 teams two of them are already in HN, I have a light day tomorrow can I go with you?

James: I guess so You can be my wingman, Be here at 0600 for breakfast.

Thresica: ok, and James I opened an account for the HQ to day and transferred 10,000,000 credits to it.

James: that’s fine, you also need to open accounts for Eagle One and The Phoenix.

Thresica: how much should I put in them?

James: say 2 mil should take care of any emergencies.

James finished his meal, I’ll see you in the morning. then he left the mess hall went back to his ship, Jake see if you can find buyers for the 3 dolphins, lets go back to the HQ I have some work to do before I turn in.

Jake: roger, Jake secured the hatch, departed the ship, and landed on the HQ, announced, Hatch open,

James left the ship, saw a patrol of security guards checking the landing bay, as he headed to the lift, swiped his card, and the lift started moving, announced Penthouse floor and opened the doors, James left the lift and ran into Tony Brock His security Chief, hi Tony is every thing working out for you?

Tony: yes sir the HQ team is set up every thing is quite I was just heading down to check with Sara, before turning in Anthony and Amanda moved their team to the Phoenix, for some training, I think we are ready.

James: Good, I’ll let you go see you later, James headed to his apt and swiped his card the door opened and he entered. And the door closed, he went to the Vault made an inventory and secured the vault, he laid out clean clothes and went in to the bath room took a shower put on clean underwear brushed his teeth and went to bed.