With their next assignment now official, Rareth and Telmeck spent the next few hours preparing. They gathered their weapons and armor into Rareth's dropship, prepared their residences for an extended leave of absence, and took care of any other last minute planning before they left. Once ready, they took Rareth's dropship into orbit, then requisitioned an FTL carrier in which to dock the dropship to take them to Pax, as ships the size of a dropship could not be equipped with an FTL drive and be fully effective in combat at the same time, due to the space required for said drive. 

Even at faster than light speeds, space travel could take a considerable amount of time, depending on the destination. With the territories of the Rothians, Humans, and Sovereignty taken into account, the settled portion of the galaxy had a radius of about five thousand light years around Pax in any direction. A few ships and probes had been to other parts of the galaxy, but there was really no reason to settle any farther away when there were still countless unexplored worlds within the known regions of the galaxy. To get from the farthest end of the settled region of space to the other would take about two months of travel, though the trip from Rothia to Pax was about two weeks. Contacting any sort of external network was impossible in FTL, but there was enough saved on to the ship's computer to keep the pair entertained for the duration of the journey. 

Rareth and Telmeck awoke to an alarm indicating they were about to drop out of FTL. The autopilot would handle the approach all the way up to the point where they would need to contact docking control, but nevertheless, Rareth brought herself out of bed to get in the pilot's seat. With the level of clearance she had as a Datius, she was able to bypass most security checks and get to Concord rather quickly. All the docking authorities had to do was to tag her dropship with a device that signaled it was authorized to fly in civilian airspace, as armed vessels were not normally allowed in atmosphere. 

Once they were cleared, Rareth proceeded to fly them straight to the building in Concord that they were set to meet the Assembly representatives charged with overseeing this joint team. Different departments and branches of the Assembly had their own buildings across the city; this one in particular was dedicated to the Bureau of Joint Intelligence. She was able to obtain a landing pad in a kind of external "hanger" on the building itself, so it was easy enough for them to take an elevator down to the lobby and record their arrival in the Bureau's systems. Since the meeting was not scheduled for two more days, they were instructed by the automated system to wait in the lobby for a representative to speak to them. 

Rareth sat down on one of the chairs that was appropriately sized for a Rothian and took a look around at the lobby. Some of the buildings on Pax always struck her as rather odd. It was made with a mix of architectural and design styles from all races. This one in particular had Rothian materials, Sovereignty structural design, and Human aesthetics. It was meant to make all races feel more comfortable, but mostly, it just made all races feel slightly uncomfortable. Most of the buildings on the planet were not like this, of course. They were built with only a single style; it was only the government buildings that had such a wierd amalgamation of cultural designs.