Rob smiled, glad the Cierra liked the building. "Of course, whatever you require we can do for you. We'll sign all the paperwork at Belgaroth."

As they came out from the turbolift, Rob smiled at Cierra and nodded slowly. "Of course you may stay. As long as you need you."

With that he pulled out his comm link and informed everyone that the facility would be under new management from now on.

"Shall we return to the ship? Or would you like to stay on planet and go sightseeing?"

Cierra instructed Kyra to sit at the desk.

"Review all the personel here a the facility. We'll need to go to 100% automation by the enb of this week."

Cierra looked at Rob.

"These are your employees Rob and I'd hate to let any of them go. Would you please offer transfers to other SE facilities so they can maintain emplyment? For obvious reasons, we simply cannot risk keeping them here."

Rob knodded yes and seemed pleased Cierra was concerned about the emplyees. After maaking an announcement, Rob looked at Cierra.

"Shall we return to the ship? Or would you like to stay on planet and go sightseeing?"

"I think we should return to the ship. We have much to discuss."

Cierra walked up to Kyra and spoke in a low voice.

"Have Gordo log into the system from Coruscant and begin analyzing the entire network here. Change codes and.. you know the drill Kyra."

Kyra acknowledged her instructions and Cierra joined Rob and the two returned to the hangar. Cierra had a little surprise in store for Rob as she pushed him aside and took the pilot seat.

"I think I shall take you for the ride back to Belgaroth. Would you like to copilot??!!!"

Cierra was a bit anxious to show off her piloting skill as well.

Rob smiled gently as he heard everything Cierra whispered through his ear implant. He was going to say that for security reasons the facilities computer systems were not connected to the holonet and in fact existed within their own building network. After a second thought Rob felt it would be better for Kyra to figure that out on her own and impliment things as she saw fit. He was no longer owner of this facility so it was not his probably. What was his problem, was some of the data stored in the systems, which he instructed one of the IT personnel to quickly erase from the system until every scrap was gone.

When both with in the ship, Rob grinned at Cierra and motioned her into the pilot chair. "After you Cierra."

He took his place in the copilot and smile, leaning back into the chair.

The ship touched down on Belgaroth and Cierra along with Rob exited the craft.

"I'm truly pleased witht he facility. I hope you don't mind that I'll be overseeing the last phases to the completion fo the freighter. If you prefer, I can remain with Kyra. I will need to check in with her from time to time as the astromech facility is prepped."

Cierra walked with Rob as he was leading her somewhere in hid vast facility. On the way Cierra spoke of having SE help witht he building refit and gave her ideas of what she thought needed to be changed. She also asked that the office section be built up to it towers over the entire complex.

"I'd also like to ask you something else Rob. I've never really looked at everything SE has to offer and would love to go through your catalog inventory for reading material this evening."

Rob was simply smiling at Cierra. He noted everything they covered and even ordered some ships to be dispatched to begin the work right away.

"Where are we going exactly anyway?"

Rob smiled as Cierra followed him. He really enjoyed talking to this lovely and intelligent woman. As they spoke, he could often pause and talk into his comm link to order supplies and what not. He also dispatched the ships to start the projects on the astromech facility.

"I'll let you access the catalog once we get to your room. Which is where we are going." He smiled as he paused and opened up a nearby room.

The room opened to a medium sized apartment style quarters. It was full furnished and contained almost every convenience one would need to reside at the facility for some time in comfort.

"Everything has been set up for you to stay as long as you like. Also if you would like to take out the completed fighter, you may at anytime." He smile and gestured towards the rooms interior. "Will these quarters be alright? The computer terminal has been opened for you to access the whole Stellar Enterprises catalog."

Cierra looked around the comfortable room as she listened to Rob.

"Will these quarters be alright? The computer terminal has been opened for you to access the whole Stellar Enterprises catalog."

"They're fine, and I will look throught he catalog this evening."

Before Rob left, Cierra then stopped him.

"Oh, and Rob..."

A big smile came over her face and she began to laugh.

"I promise Ishara won't show up with a blaster pointed at you !!!"

As Rob laughed, Cierra's guard went down for a moment and she found herself almost leaning in towards Rob. She stopped herself as protocol kicked in.

"G-Good night Rob."

Cierra closed the door and sat down in one of the chairs in the room. She was confused as to what just took her over. Did I almost make a mistake? Cierra began to access the catalog and again paused. She began to talk to herself.

"I need to be more careful..."

Cierra shrugged.

"...or maybe not."

Cierra then began to read the catalog and would soon get some rest.

Rob smiled as he watched Cierra look around the room and laughed out loud as she mentioned Ishara. When Cierra leaned in ever so slightly, Rob;s heart seemed to miss a beat. She quickly pulled back, however, and he jumped smiled at her while taking one last look before leaving.

"Good night to you as well Cierra." He nodded and felt the door close a little behind him.

For a moment he stood on the other side of the door and placed his palm against the metal. This mind raced at what almost just happened. Had she really tryed to lean towards him? Perhaps she was starting to like him like he was her. It was somewhat confusing, but exciting at the same time. Rob has almost forgot what these feelings were like, but something inside him still hurt. Those memories of his wife and his love for her would alway be there.

He shook his head and looked down at the floor before slowly moving away from the door and towards his office. There was much work still left to be completed.


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While they were underground, the land above them was starting to stir with activity. Freighters from Stellar Enterprises were starting to arrive and disgorge many personnel to initialize the construction of more processing facilities on the land mass. Some of the smaller freighter landed close by, but the larger ones were starting to descend on the TaggeCo spaceport, which was designed to handle ships of their size.

Belgaroth would soon start to grow into a large supplier of reprocessed metals to the Core worlds. These metals would be far cheaper to purchase than by conventional means since money would not need to be spend in mining them and processing that raw ore and turning it into viable metallics. Plans were already underway with Corellia as well as Rendili for the purchase of these metals. Belgaroth would now also welcome the scrap that from the core worlds and deals would probably be put into place so that much of that waste metal got shipped straight to the planet for reprocessing.

0730 hours...

Lexx brought some of her gear with her and handed it to one of the men to load on the ship. She turned around and noticed Stevenson coming towards her.

"Looks like we're all set to go."

As he knodded to her, Stevenson gave the signal to the men to get on board. Cierra then quickly walked up to Lexx.

"Watch your back Lexx. If anything goes wrong, get out."

Lexx smirked at her friend.

"I always do, and I will."

With that, Lexx walked up the ramp and entered the ship.

Ilmus smiled as he strode forward in his neat and pressed Colonel uniform. He stood up straight and commanded the Nuknog men to board the ship before looking at Lexx. Beside him was a black crate, labeled CS-45. The case was locked and had a code pad at the top. Quickly a man ran forward and moved the crate towards the rear of the ship.

"Looks like it doesn't it." Ilmus smirked and looked at Lexx and followed her onboard.

He looked over the living compartment to make sure everyone was situated and then moved towards a nearby intercom unit.

"This is Colonel Stevenson, all on board and ready for takeoff."

"Roger that sir. Enjoy the ride."

With that the ramp retrated and the hatch sealed up before the transport rose into the sky and blasted towards space.

Cierra was in one of tha many conference rooms. She was at work with the redesign of the new astromech facility and had a holographic image in thr center of the long desk of what she wanted done. Cierra was also speaking to one of the construction droids about the refit.

Also spread on the table were some breakfast selections that on of Rob's team had dropped off. Cierra also had some items from her briefcase spread out as well. She was buried in her work.

Rob had walked in and noticed Cierra in full business mode.

"Good morning Rob, how are you this morning?"

She smiled at Rob and again went back to work talking tothe construction droid that was onsite on Teyr. She looked up at Rob again who was watching her.

"I love it Rob! I spent so many years getting an education in business and Ishara promised one day I'd really get to use it. Now I am! This astromech facility is going to be a great start for me."

Cierra ended her communication with the construction droid who now had the instructions required so work could begin. She plopped down in a chair with a big sigh.

"Time for a break! Join me for breakfast?"