Re: TPD Station Brilliance
Kars ponders just where the Cyborg was sending that liqueur, and whether he could actually taste it or not, but before he could consider asking, the announcement sounded out diverting his attention. "Right then. Time to wander back then, I guess." He says, having to crane his view up to see Talen's nod. Thirty minutes still felt like a rather long time to the Kopak right now. Regardless, off he sets to return to the hanger.
Arriving back at the Hell Strafer he finds Ko lounging around on top of it again, tapping periodically at the buttons on her suits wrist. Probably reading something or poking around on the extranet using her helmets HUD display.
"Oi runt. We get to lift anchor soon. You managed to fight off that saboteur then?" Kars calls over on the approach.
"He was just doing dull hanger checks. And you never signed out those lifting robots properly, so they thought we were still using them." She replies without looking over.
"Well whatever. As long as you taught him a lesson about snooping around my ship." Kars rambles on un-bothered, "Time to get in your hole. We're gonna float out and wait for that cyborg to launch so we can hitch a lift."
At this Ko wordlessly kicks her legs and slides off from the craft. Both of them stepping over to underneath the cockpit hatches. Taking hold of the bars either side, and swinging themselves up and into the narrow slots. The engines hum as they come to life, and Kars grumbles as he waits for the docking drones to guide them out in their painfully safe and controlled manner.
"Alright Mr Talen. I'm just floating out here and will come over to dock with your ship soon as you're out and ready." Kars transmits back to 'The Laughing Rogue'
Ko meanwhile opens her cockpit hatch and shuffles up and out of the tiny craft, latching on with her suits magnetic boots to casually stand on the hull. Looking back to the Station Brilliance and watching out for the launch of The Laughing Rogue. "These ships are all so huge. It's scary to think that they actually need people like us when they have all this..." She comments idly to herself and Kars over suit coms.
"Ehh. They just need expendable resources to head out in front, so that their dreadnoughts know where to line up when we get overrun, is all it is." Kars responds flatly, drawing a slight glum glance from Ko down at his cockpit hatch.
"You really think that's how it is?"
"Doesn't really matter, as long as we're ready for the possibility. Never trust anyone that offers you money, whether you intend to take it or not. Everyone will try to use you for as much as you're worth, but only as much as you let them. As long as you always keep an eye on that line where a deal becomes a scam, nobody owns you." Kars elaborates on his 'cheerful' view of things. Ko making the odd small grimace or frown, although it did match up perfectly with her limited experience of the world, she still couldn't help but feel there was at least a bit more warmth in the Galaxy than Kars was letting on, or knew of. "And hey, you did say that you wanted some payback against the bugs anyway."