Deskyl and DZ among space debris
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Deskyl nods.

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    "She will, Ma'am. And she prefers that you respond to her body language as if it were speech."

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"I'm sorry."

 

"Would she like for me to leave?"

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    "No, Ma'am."

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"Lord Vader wanted to speak to us, Ma'am?"

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"He's with us right now."

 

"He hears everything. And when he wishes to speak, his words appear in my head."

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    "Yes, Ma'am."

 

    "Deskyl is not familiar yet with macrofabricators, and needs to return her borrowed pilot to the dragon Culamine. She intends to give the engineers here specifications for some materials that the locals don't appear to have that will be necessary for a hyperdrive, and then return to the territories, ideally with Culamine's kidnapped vassals. She's arranging for communication between here and there and will return as necessary."

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"A tour of this facility, and extensive instruction by available experts in macrofabrication technology, can be arranged at whatever time you find convenient."

 

"Perhaps you'd like some downtime first? You've been in transit for a great many degrees."

 

"The station overseer's quarters are already reserved for your use. Additional quarters for your entourage may be requisitioned as suits your preferences."

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Deskyl gives Shreya and Devika a once-over, as though it's just occurred to her to consider the effects the travel has had on them.

    "A rest would be wise, yes. She will take individual quarters for all three."

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Meera leads the way off down a side passage.

The hallway has many doors, most closed. Through the open ones, simple bunk rooms can be seen—not spacious, but reasonably well furnished for long term use.

At the end of this hallway, a more spacious chamber awaits.

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The chamber has the look of an office, though given the lack of gravity it lacks a desk or chairs: instead offering cabinets and computer interfaces along the walls and a wide open space in the center for holo-displays.

A couple of smaller chambers, a bathroom and a closet, are available through adjoining doors.

In the back of the office, a hatchway opens up into a fourth room, the largest in the suite, whose cylindrical interior walls rotate at significant speed.

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“The back room uses rotational acceleration to simulate the inertial forces you’re used to. It has amenities for sleep and exercise.”

She gestures towards the hatchway. Doesn’t bother pointing out the obvious: that one ought to be careful when transitioning to and from the rapidly rotating areas.

“My master welcomes you to use the station’s fabrication bays to assemble additional furniture or utilities suitable to your needs.”

She turns about and offers another brief bow.

“In any case, I have been placed at your disposal for the duration of your stay here. Please let me know if there’s anything else I can do for you.”

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The rotating room draws Deskyl's attention, and she barely pauses to send a burst of sign at DZ before making her way in with all the grace and brash confidence one would expect of a Sith.

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The central space of the rotating room has the same weightless quality as the rest of the station, but by gripping the walls (which have cushioned handholds not unlike the interior of a SLAYER cockpit) one can enter the proper inertial frame to experience simulated gravity—approximately 1G along the cylindrical ‘floor’ of the chamber, less as one gets further ‘above’ it.

The two main fixtures of the room, positioned 180 degrees from each other are a luxurious bed and a compact training area. 

The color scheme is black with red detail.

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Deskyl takes a few moments to explore how the simulated gravity compares to the real thing, and then starts immediately on a lightsaber kata.

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DZ, meanwhile, relays her master's signed instructions to Meera: she's to show Devika and Shreya to their rooms, and then arrange meals for all three, with DZ's help in determining what to serve Deskyl.

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All instructions are carried out promptly.

The two bunkrooms closest to Deskyl's quarters will be cleared out and given to Devika and Shreya, unless Meera is instructed to house them elsewhere (the two pilots are satisfied with this arrangement).

DZ is given a basic summary of the station's available foodstores (actually not that great: luxury furniture is a lot easier to get at a macrofabrication facility than is luxury food) and invited to pick out a meal she expects to be to Deskyl's tastes.

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"We have a cafeteria adjacent to the kitchen, but I could repurpose a meeting room for dining instead or bring the food directly to your master's quarters--whatever you think she'd prefer?"

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Fortunately Deskyl isn't actually that picky; DZ makes a point of getting a complete rundown of the available options, for appearance's sake, but accepts something on the upper end of fanciness among what's readily available. "She'll eat in her quarters, Ma'am."

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Meera cooks up the requested meals, packs them away into spillproof containers and delivers them directly to the visitors' doors.

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DZ takes Deskyl's. "I'll let you know when she needs you, Ma'am."

Deskyl finishes her kata sequence, and eats; DZ spends the time at the wall interface, learning what she can about the facility.

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(Meera lets DZ know how to get in contact with her, and then departs.)

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The facility can use a variety of techniques--scaling from rapid large scale robotic assembly of simple components to painstakingly slow nanoassembly of complex ones--to translate seed material into finished products. The machinery has some limitations on which types of seed material can be utilized by which construction techniques, but can process almost any conventional substance in at least one or two ways.

Lacking proper artificial intelligence to run the machinery, the facility relies on human labor for two primary functions: performing incidental maintenance (either by hand or by piloting repair drones) and furnishing new design templates.

Speaking in terms of producing spacecraft from DZ's home galaxy, the macrofab's assembly bays would be large enough to produce fighters or freighters but not larger vessels.

Of course, the only design templates it currently possesses are for the local civilization's technology: SLAYER plating, DEUS units, and so forth.

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