Docking-module

USS Odyssey

Al Zadi trade station / docking-module

A segmented compartment, leading into the central core of the station.

Lt. Cinder Jittaz 14-Apr-21 11:11 AM

*Pulling herself along she went to the end of the arm and waited to see if anyone would meet her or even join her.*

Station Owner Kopano Leetile-Zadi BOT 14-Apr-21 11:29 AM

*Indeed, at the end of the wide, reinforced tunnel is another airlock, and this cycles and the inner door dilates open, revealing behind it several humans in matching grey-blue jumpsuits. By and large, they show the same skinny frame that the traffic controller displayed, an artefact of long-term rationing. Most of them look rather bored, though there is one man at the front grinning broadly; he has no legs, though that doesn't seem to bother him in the weightless environment.* *This man reaches out with a rubber-tipped stick in one hand to push himself a little towards Cinder, moving expertly, and extends his hand to her, all smiles, as the others behind look like they'd much rather be somewhere else.* "Greetings, friend. I am Kopano Zadi, I own this station. I'd like to be the first to welcome you here." *A fluorescent light starts to flicker beside the airlock door, and Kopano, not allowing his gaze to waver, reaches out with his stick to gently smack the light a couple of times; it starts to work again.*

Lt. Cinder Jittaz 14-Apr-21 11:34 AM

*Smiling she extends a hand and shakes his hand as she responds letting her Midwest accent draw out into the open.* “Nice to meet you Kopano, I’m Captain Andrews of the Ace of spades but you can call me Erin.”

Station Owner Kopano Leetile-Zadi BOT 14-Apr-21 11:36 AM

"In that case, I'm pleased to meet you, Erin." *Kopano's smile somehow becomes even wider.* "Will we be seeing the rest of your crew? I'm sure you're all very anxious for some rest after your journey here. Our station's facilities are fully open to you all."

Ensign Varlex 14-Apr-21 11:37 AM

*the large figure that is varlex would show up behind the diplomat and he would look directly down at the station owner with his cold eyes* *he eventualy breaks eye contact as he steps.to the side and leans against the side of the module. Gun at the ready seeing his merc role* (edited)

Lt. Cinder Jittaz 14-Apr-21 11:44 AM

“Yes you should I came out here first so that I could greet you and answer any initial questions you may have before I invite my crew to the station.”

Station Owner Kopano Leetile-Zadi BOT 14-Apr-21 11:47 AM

*Kopano simply blinks and nods as another crew member appears behind Jittaz. Hmm. Poor discipline. A sign of a crew that really needs some R&R.* *Seeing one of the security officers start to inch his hand towards his concealed riot gun, Kopano gives a surreptitious signal not to proceed. Instead, he approaches the grumpy, gun-toting man himself, trying to maintain the same level of calm friendliness.* "Good afternoon, sir. It's good to see you so eager to come and see our station, but we do have a policy banning lethal firearms, along with projectile weapons larger than a pistol. I'm afraid you'll have to leave that weapon on your ship. I'm sure you can understand that it's safer not to have assault rifles floating around everywhere."

Ensign Cerred King 14-Apr-21 11:51 AM

[D] *Cerred stood at the back of the group, reaming quiet. On the way, he'd passed through and grabbed a tape recorder and notebook he'd found in habitation area. He remained quiet while the others ahead spoke.*

Ensign Varlex 14-Apr-21 11:55 AM

*He looks the man in the eyes as he approaches and greets him back with a respectful nod before lifting his hand away from his weapon. his head tilts slightly as he starts to explain their weapon policy which he responds too with simple nodding before he takes a step back unto the airlock of the ship* "Didn't mean to beak any station rules." *he smirks* "I don't really get paid to start the trouble, so my apologies to you and your security team" *his tone is quite formal and his voice didn't carry any remarkable accent*

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Station Owner Kopano Leetile-Zadi BOT 14-Apr-21 11:56 AM

*Kopano doesn't show his relief.* "Thank you for your understanding, sir. A.L. Zadi station is open to you, as to all."

Lt. JG Survol 14-Apr-21 11:56 AM

*Survol stood behind Cerred and slightly to the right, more than a full head taller than the intelligence agent, beanie on his head, wearing all black. Blending in and totally not sus at all. His flat expression might have made him look like a Russian thug in this instance. He stayed quiet and observed.* (edited)

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Lt. Cinder Jittaz 14-Apr-21 11:58 AM

*Cinder gave Varlex a look but didn’t say anything as the situation seemed to defuse its self. Smiling she reached to her hip and pulled out a data PADD from this time era and opened it.* “We have a lot of fruits and vegetables as well as some pieces of art that we would like to trade in return for some basic metals and alloys. You have traders here I presume?”

Ensign Cerred King 14-Apr-21 12:00 PM

*Cerred had pulled a jacket on over his clothes, not in the mood to show off the logo from some Bajoran punk band. Though he was hopeful he could just pass it off as an art piece if anyone asked. He kept the notebook in front of him though and was scribbling random Vulcan phrases on the pages to make it look like he was taking notes.*

Station Owner Kopano Leetile-Zadi BOT 14-Apr-21 12:07 PM

"Yes, of course. I'll ask our accountant Howard to talk to you. But first, why don't you get your crew out of your ship and take a look around, get some real food to eat?"

Lt. JG Survol 14-Apr-21 12:12 PM

*Not intending to eavesdrop but from his position impossible to not see what averted was writing, Survol shifty-eyed kept glancing at the notes and seeing they were utterly gibberish.* “Highly illogical.” *He muttered quietly.*

Ensign Cerred King 14-Apr-21 12:15 PM

*Cerred looked over his shoulder and raised an eyebrow, blinking. He cocked his head a little at Survol.* "Did I missing somesing een my notes, Sir? It hes been long trip after all. Easy to missing details." (Did I miss something in my notes, sir? Its been a long trip after all, easy to miss details.)

Lt. Cinder Jittaz 14-Apr-21 12:40 PM

*Cinder glanced back at Survol and Capri before turning back and smiling as she nodded.* “Ofcourse it’s been a long voyage I’m sure we could use time to actually walk for once.”

Station Owner Kopano Leetile-Zadi BOT 14-Apr-21 12:48 PM

"Well then, you're in luck. We have a centrifuge ring for just that purpose."

Ensign Cerred King 14-Apr-21 12:53 PM

*Cerred closed the notebook and nodded at Cinder, adjusting his glasses.* "Perfect. Chenge in scenery end a valk sounds amezing right now." (Perfect. A change in scenery and a walk sounds amazing right now)

Lt. Cinder Jittaz 14-Apr-21 01:07 PM

*Smiling she nodded as she adjusted her hat again.* “Sounds great. Would you lead the way?”

Lt. JG Survol 14-Apr-21 01:13 PM

*Survol recalled having to be in character to respond to Cerred, stiffening ever so slightly if it were possible for the Vulcan to become more wound up.* “Don’t be such a keener, eh?” *His inflection remained the same droning Vulcan-style as ever.*

Station Owner Kopano Leetile-Zadi BOT 14-Apr-21 01:13 PM

"Of course. I'll need to get my legs first, if you don't mind." *Kopano gestures to where his legs would have been, if he had any.*

Lt. Cinder Jittaz 14-Apr-21 01:13 PM

“Yep not a problem at all. Take your time.”

Ensign Cerred King 14-Apr-21 01:14 PM

*Cerred hid his chuckle behind his notebook and looked back at Survol,* "You doing great." *He said quietly in Vulcan.*

Station Owner Kopano Leetile-Zadi BOT 14-Apr-21 01:16 PM

*Kopano nods.* "Thank you. I'll get them from my office." *Kopano uses his stick to start to build up momentum towards the hatch into the main segment of the station, as his security officers move aside. He wonders whether he's going to be followed, not really caring.*

Lt. Cinder Jittaz 14-Apr-21 01:19 PM

*Cinder took that as an invitation and pushes off the wall following the legless man. Remembering everyone behind her she turned around.* “Varlex stay with the ship, Bartek and Spencer come with me. Bring the side arms, not that I don’t trust the station I just don’t trust new places.” *Pushing off again she followed behind him.* (edited)

(Sorry Survol I didn’t know your cover name and just made one up

Ensign Cerred King 14-Apr-21 01:22 PM

*Cerred nodded and tapped his hips over his hoodie, giving her a nod.* "I seenk zey are steel in the Ace. I go get for us, vone moment." *He said softly and went back through the airlock.* (I think they are still in the Ace. I'll go get them, one moment.)

Ensign Varlex 14-Apr-21 01:24 PM

*he raises an eyebrow at his actual name being used but he then just nods and says* "already planing on that, ma'am" *and he indeed does remain behind guarding the entrance of the ship, from inside the ship*

Ensign Cerred King 14-Apr-21 01:33 PM

[D] *It took a few minutes but Cerred then returned, handing over some holsters pistols to Cinder and Survol. He'd taken his hoodie off and was putting it back on to hide his own pistol in a shoulder holster before picking the notebook up again.* "Here ve are."

Lt. JG Roderic Altan 14-Apr-21 01:44 PM

*a low voice, monitoring their communications, quietly spoken, as not to surprise them.* *we must act more like a trade vessel and less like Starfleet*

*these people are at ease, somewhat, so be at ease with them.*

*but do not trust them*

Ensign Cerred King 14-Apr-21 01:52 PM

*Cerred blinked as the words came across his glasses, nodding in response. He looked at the others then started walking, going in the direction Kopano had gone and carrying himself like he was supposed to be there.*

Ensign Varlex 14-Apr-21 04:07 PM

*Varlex continues keeping an eye out for anyone coming down the corridor, seeing he's in his legal rights to carry his firearms he would still be fully armed and ready to go incase the need arives*

Security BOT 15-Apr-21 03:40 PM

*A Security officer on patrol sees Varlex waiting by the airlock, and pushes herself over.* "Hey there. Y'alright?"

Ensign Varlex 15-Apr-21 04:19 PM

*he loks over at the madame and he raises an eyebrow before he says* "ay, i am" *before he asks* "how about you?"

Security BOT 15-Apr-21 04:20 PM

*Not exactly the spirit of what she was asking, but Station Constable Garrovick rolls with it.* "Ah, I'm fine, thanks. I was just wondering what you're doing here."

Ensign Varlex 15-Apr-21 04:22 PM

*he floats a bit more straight before he says* "Guarding the ace of spades..." *he sniffs and wipes his nose with his thumb* "i'm guessing your security?"

Security BOT 15-Apr-21 04:24 PM

"That I am. Y'know, you don't need to hold the door closed. It does have a lock, and it'll keep out people as well as air." *A pretty poor pun, and she knows it. It doesn't faze her though.*

Ensign Varlex 15-Apr-21 04:25 PM

"people with the know how could get it open" *he comments back ignoring the pun* "Besides i'm being paid for it so" *he shrugs* "just doing my job"

Security BOT 15-Apr-21 04:28 PM

"When you could be paid to go down and have fun? Oh, sorry, 'scout out the area for suspicious persons?'" *The constable doesn't want people loitering with weapons. That's how you get a repeat of the North Star Incident.*

Ensign Varlex 15-Apr-21 04:35 PM

*he huffs amused* "you are starting to make me think your trying to get inside" *he goes back to leaning* "but inside of what is the real question here, isn't it?" *he winks, he then feels slightly sick as he just flirted with a human* (edited)

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Security BOT 15-Apr-21 04:52 PM

*Constable Garrovick rolls her eyes at the rather poorly executed double entendre.* "If you think I'm trying to 'get inside' *you*, then I'm afraid you've got rather the wrong idea. And no, I don't want to board your ship, either. My jurisdiction ends at your ship's outer door, at least for now." *Garrovick sighs. The charm offensive failed. Now to be direct.* "Yeah, I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to move unless you've got a good reason to be here. That reason being, waiting to go in, or waiting for someone to come out."

Ensign Varlex 15-Apr-21 04:55 PM

*he looks at the line between the ship and the docking module he's standing behind before he looks back up* "I thought you mentioned your jurisdiction stopped at the ship ma'am" *he hints at the line* "the station head was fine with my decision to stay at this end of the ship and i doubt he would want to get a bad review on the 'internet' due to his security team" *Varlex has started his more direct approach aswel as he was ordered to guard* (edited)

Security BOT 15-Apr-21 05:06 PM

"You may be on that side of the seal, but you're on this side of the door. You're breathing my air, you're looking at my walls, and we're the only station in a half-dozen kips, so a bad Tripadvisor review isn't a problem." *This was in the slang part of the briefing packet; referring to kilometers per second of delta-v, kip is not a unit of distance but is more useful than one at measuring apparent distance and so is often used instead.* "I really can't let you loiter here. We've got fuel lines running just outside these walls. We're close enough to the main radiation shield that if I kick the floor the shield vibrates. We've got eight docking ports, each of which is just begging to vent the compartment. Not to mention that anyone loitering down here really has no good reason to do so other than maintaining station security. And we can do that ourselves. Do you really want me to call my boss and have him deal with you? It turns out all his... 'skills' from the ghettos of Mars are perfectly adaptable to dealing with stubborn customers as head of station security. Now, get in, or get out."

Ensign Varlex 15-Apr-21 05:20 PM

*He sighs and rubs his hand over his fake hair* "Ma'am i'm not trying to be difficult" *he then goes to cross his arms* "we have both our orders and now they seem to be in conflict so i'll do us both a solid...just so you are aware i'm grabbing my concealed firearm so i'm alowed within the station? alright? alright!" *he then goes to take it out and puts inside a crate in the airlock, he then taps his smaller sidearm to show where he's carrying it* "just so you know i'm still armed..now from here i'm going to stand guard at the end of this module within the safe area" *he then tilts his head* "and i mean no offence by this as like i said i have my own orders to prevent unauthorised access to our ship and i'm not one to breach contracts or orders" (edited)

Security BOT 16-Apr-21 09:23 AM

*Constable Garrovick eyes Varlex with annoyance for a moment before her phone starts to ring. She scoffs at it, pushing herself away to take the call with her voice lowered, trying to stop Varlex hearing.* "Hey, Chief. Yes, I *know* I haven't checked in at Refueling Ops, something's come up. We've got some stubborn merc down in the docking pod who insists on standing guard armed outside his ship. D'you wanna come down and deal with i- right, uh, no, he's not been violent, just stubborn. And a wannabe philanderer... You want me to *leave* him? Fine, fine, I'll leave him. Just don't blame me when we have to mop up the blood. Right. Yeah. Hate you too. Bye." *Garrovick folds her phone and puts it back in her pocket.* "Just talked to the higher ups. You can stay here for now if you insist. Just don't cause trouble, alright?"

Ensign Varlex 16-Apr-21 09:37 AM

*varlex would raise an eyebrow before he asks* "what do you mean with "Not wanting to mop up my blood?" *before going* "but yeah, like i said, not getting paid to cause trouble so no need to worry about me" *he then seems to dig into his pocket and pull out a couple american dollars and offers it to her* "here for your time.."

Security BOT 16-Apr-21 09:43 AM

*Garrovick simply rolls her eyes and leaves, shoving off with one leg towards the hatch.*

Ensign Varlex 16-Apr-21 09:44 AM

*varlex huffs* "C'mon, just trying to be friendly!" *he would yell after her before he goes back to leaning against the open hatch*

Ensign Varlex 17-Apr-21 09:08 AM

*varlex was starting to get slightly bored so he takes out his era appriopate telephone and starts playing snake on it*

Lt. Cinder Jittaz 18-Apr-21 12:41 PM

\*Entering she glided along and back into the ace.”

Ensign Cerred King 18-Apr-21 01:26 PM

*Cerred made his way through the ring to the airlock.*

Ensign Varlex 18-Apr-21 02:05 PM

*Varlex would have greeted them as they bacme back before fellowing them back in* (edited)

Lt. JG Survol 18-Apr-21 02:12 PM

*Survol followed along with Cerred. Apparently they were leaving!*

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