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Collab between @archmage MC and @Enalais
Orro took the droids hand and shook it, he rose from the crate and nodded to the shuttle awaiting them. "Everyone, lets get moving. All personnel on leave are to return to their shuttles, we leave as soon as possible. Now, Willoh have you ever been on a star destroyer before?" He asked, walking up the ramp of the shuttle.
The Moff took a seat, and looked to the bottle of brandy that he left out with his conversation with Talina, with any luck they would be on their way shortly and see what was so important on Dhira that not even Koren could truly find out it's cargo. He sighed, he had to focus on his mission now. "I think this will be the start of a beautiful friendship." He said, and chuckled, in his mind he didn't have friends he had weapons, and tools. But apart of him didn't believe in that, the years of politicking had probably made him a cynic. But this droid was a bounty hunter, it wouldn't take her long to betray him for the promise of more credits.
The moff got so lost in thought, he almost forgot about the droid. "So, where exactly were you made, and why were you made. Your skill set is unique to say the least." He asked, picking up the bottle of brandy and putting it away instead. He didn't need anymore of the drink at the moment.
A star destroyer? While Willoh had seen them from afar, she had never actually boarded one. To her they seemed to be small cities flying in space, and it was quite impressive how the Empire had so many of them. She wondered what it was like on one, and started to think of fun scenarios However she was brought out of her revere by Orro's targeted questions. No doubt in curiosity, but Willoh didn't know him very well so she decided to go with vague answers.
"Oh, I was made in Hutt space, I think Nar Shadda, but I find something as trivial as that to be pointless to remember. As for why, well, lots of strange droids are made in Hutt space, it is quite lawless after all. So its not uncommon for some super droid lover to decide to build a droid with 'quirkiness' already there from the get go, instead of needing to wait many, many years for a droid to develop those quirks on their own." Willoh explained, acting casual about the whole matter. As far as she knew, all Orro knew was what was on her bounty card for abilities, which was mostly weapons expert and stealth abilities with a quirky fun twist. Nothing too out of the ordinary there, considering some of those assassin droids had similar specs.
As the shuttle was loaded, up the men left the hangar with the exception of a few who entered and sat down. They were his bodyguard, and they had been disguised well as mechanics. But he didn't doubt that they would rather be in their armor, but he thought maybe she didn't know what he was talking about. The quirkiness was endearing to say the least, so he reaffirmed things. "Yes you certainly are quirky, it makes you unique. But I haven't met a droid who could change it's color on a whim, or speak so...Freely" He said this with a nod.
At the same time, the shuttle ramp closed and it took off leaving the hangar. Orro, didn't say much after that until the shuttle landed softly in the hangar of his star destroyer. "Welcome aboard The Adamant, my flagship. She's a beauty." He said, nodding he left the star destroyer down the ramp of the shuttle into the hangar. "Come on!" He shouted, from the bottom of the ramp.
Willoh departed from the shuttle behind Orro and his guard, a couple following behind her. Looking around, Willoh was pretty impressed with the star destroyer. But of course it was an imperial flagship, imperials always had that sense of grandiose, and well, they had ruled most of the known galaxy for many years if the holonet was to be believed. She didn't show her usual 'bouncy' curiosity at what she was seeing though, considering she was on a job, and only gave a more 'looking around with some enchantment' look instead. "Nice. Never been on one of these before, just like I figured. Its really big. Considering its a flagship, I wouldn't be surprised if you had a pool here for morale." Willoh said, showing her respect and admiration for the whole situation.
"So, which way to the meeting room or bridge or whatever? Or are we going to start things here?" Willoh said, not against a tour, but figuring asking something wouldn't be very professional.
Orro nodded. "It's quite the ship to explore, A pool would definitely be a nice addition. But alas, not something that comes standard with the ship." He laughed, the joke was so stupid he cut the laugh short. "I will show you to the bridge." Orro said, and led her through the ship. It was abuzz with various imperial personnel going about their business, they all stopped to salute the pair as they walked.
The further they went into the ship, the more his bodyguard was replaced with storm troopers in armor and with blasters. This continued until they had a small squad behind him, when they made it to the bridge they dispersed in a circle around it. "Don't mind them." He said, and sat in the command chair. "Bring us into hyperspace, we are going to Kessel." His voice had visibly changed, it was more tense, more commanding.
It didn't even seem like seconds had gone by, before the crew had jumped into action and the familiar view of hyperspace was all the pair saw. "Make yourself at home, it won't be long." He said, turning in his chair to face the droid.
There were lots and lots of neat things to see on the way to the bridge, the chief among them being all the people. Course the storm troopers were pretty funny as they replaced the squad that was following the pair beforehand. It was something about those helmets that just made Willoh laugh at them. None the less, they followed the pair to the bridge, getting into a guarding formation, Orro saying not to worry about them before telling his crew to jump to hyperspace.
"Make myself at home? I think that's not something you want me to do." Willoh said, practicing proper maid droid motions and etiquette. "Otherwise you guys would have no atmosphere, No atmosphere really keeps the pirates at bay when your traveling alone." She continued, still practicing motions, but trying to make them super cute.
Orro chuckled. "Guess I keep forgetting that part." He said, Orro just sat and stared out into the void of space, as stars passed them at lightspeed. It didn't take long to drag him out of his his thoughts before his second in command entered the room. "M'lord, are you sure you want to go alone?" She asked. "I have confidence in our droid friend, if i run into trouble on the inside, she has my permission to do what is necessary." He laughed, and gestured to Willoh. "Am I right? Besides, I'm not going to win this game. I'm going to lose on purpose." He turned to Willoh. "But my confidence does run deep, but understand failure is not an option. If you fail, it's both of us on the line, and your reputation as well." He looked over over cupped hands at her, and nodded hoping that she would take this mission seriously.
Mr. Orro was a chipper sort. Not like the stories Willoh had heard about other Moffs. "Of course I'll get the job done." Willoh said, replying to Orro's question, practicing her speech patterns."I'm equipped with many tools and self defensive measures." Her eyes gave a disgusted look for a moment. Standard droid talk was so... boring and so... predictable. But she had to do it for the mission, at least til it was over. "Or should I go in-between how I normally speak and how factory default droids speak? Something that isn't too out there? Hm...." Whilloh said, pondering for a moment before deciding. "Yeah, something in-between should be better. Call it an 'enhanced human relations' program or something. Usually I get all this sorted out when I'm on transit, guess you get to see it all!" His worry about failure wasn't much of an issue. Worse comes to worse, there was always plan B.
Orro nodded, he was sure that if it came down to it. The droid would do anything for those credits, but he didn't care what happened to her as much. After she fulfilled her purpose, maybe he would hire her. "How many languages do you know?" He asked, the droid. Willoh was practicing her vocabulary when asked, and she replied. "Whatever I can find on the holonet. But mostly common and binary."
At the same time the star destroyer emerged from hyperspace above Kessel, other imperial ships were prominent in orbit, two star destroyers started to approach The Adamant, but they stood down when they identified themselves.
Confident in her practices, Willoh put on her maid act. While she was still a bit more articulate than a standard droid, that wouldn't really be noticed considering she was posing as a maid anyway."Alrighty, lets get this job done, shall we master?" Willoh said, getting into the act.
The moff nodded, and led the droid back through the ship to the hangar, the shuttle was already prepped and awaiting. This time the moff, and the droid were the only two occupants besides the pilots. Another first, was Orro arming himself with his officers pistol tucking it away into a hidden holster. He had back up, intelligence agents were sent ahead in a normal run of the mill freighter, and they had hidden T-7 disruptor rifles in their cargo.
So if things went south Orro could extract the droid before she gave up to much, not that he doubted her if things went south but he knew bounty hunters. When it came to their own skins, they would sell you out in a heartbeat. As the shuttle left the hangar, Orro seemed to be going over things in his head one last time. First he would lose the game the wager being the droid in his company, the droid would gather information while he stayed on the planet for a few days to do "Business" Then he would confront the other moff and make him throw his support in with Orro.
The shuttle touched down at a landing pad within the grounds of the manor, as the pair stepped off and the Moff stepped out of the shuttle he was greeted with a older man. The other moff, Moff Livani was older than Orro, where Orro's hair was brown, the older mans was turning white, Livani was less kempt than Orro preferring a beard, and to top it off his eyes were much more inviting than the other mans. "Jacsen my friend!" The other moff said, he went for a handshake, but duped the younger Moff pulling him into a hug instead.
At this Orro would of struck the other man, both were veterans of the clone wars, but Orro saw combat during that war, due to Livani's status he was on a nice cushy outpost that wasn't even worth it to the seps. He hadn't seen what Orro did, didn't see men sucked out into the void of space. For that alone it was enough to want to punch the other man, that is when Livani saw what Orro wanted him to see. "Ho ho, whats this a droid? You finally got over your phobia I see, well then that's good! What's your designation droid?" Livani asked.
This guy... No wonder why he was into droids. He was also quite loose tongued, at least when it came to his 'friends' information. A phobia of droids? Must've been something quite serious to have something like that, but that also explained the lack of droids on the star destroyer from what she saw.
Bowing to her target, she said. "Hello sir, I am a new model maid droid. Master Orro here has said good things about you, Mr. Livani." Willoh said, acting curtsy and super polite.
The other man laughed. "Ha, I'm sure he told you all about the time he cleaned me out of credits, in a game of pazak. This man may not look it, but he is sharp." The other man smiled at that, Orro expected this and took the barb with a nod of his head. "This is Willoh, at least that's what they said when I bought her, but yeah shes slowly teaching me to not want to scrap every droid I see." Both men laughed at that, and they began to walk down the path. "When I saw your invite, a week ago to play pazak, I was shocked. You seemed so busy, but here you are fresh from rounding up Moff Taurus, and saving Paradise. What brought you out there my friend?" There was a brief look of fear in the other moff's eyes before it was smother, if he knew this could make things difficult. "My men needed the leave, and with the glorious emperor dead the galaxy has become less safer, any thug who hated the imperials is now emboldened by this." Orro replied.
At this Livani just nodded. "Galaxy isn't as safe as it used to be." He said, and the other moff just gave a solemn nod. "But alas, lets not live in sadness, lets live life to the fullest!" The other moff said this with so much enthusiasm in his voice that it sounded like things were going to be party, as the entered the manor both guests were taken aback by the variable wealth in this building. Livani led them through the manor, and into a parlor that had all sorts of hunting trophies and a table set with a deck of cards, the rug the table was on top of turned out to be a silverback wookie pelt. "Tell me Willoh, what is your master like is he always so uptight?" The other moff asked, shuffling his deck of cards.
It was impressive at how much money this guy seemed to have. Being high up in the empire at its height must've been very lucrative. As they walked through the mansion to the playing room, Willoh made sure to make a mental map of what she saw and what could possibly be a trap down the line. This target was quite jolly, which made him very dangerous. She'd have to keep an eye on this guy as she did her mission. "I'm sorry sir, I can't reveal Master Orro's personal information without his consent." Willoh said, giving a bow to Moff Livani.
Orro smiled, she played her part well. "Let's play shall we?" He said, sitting down in one of the chairs he reached into the pocket of his coat and pulled out his deck shuffling it and setting it down, from there the two men played their game without much of a word.
Both seemed highly focus on the game, Orro won the first round. And the way he was throwing his matches could only be seen by a pro, or a droid. But at the end of it all he got what he wanted Livani won, and the other moff smiled a triumphant grin that looked so smug Orro wanted to wipe it off his face. "You won..." The shock from Orro sounded so geninue that it was hard to determine if he was acting or not. "Take whatever you want, you won the match it's yours." At this the other moff smiled and his eyes settled on Willoh. "I hope you aren't too fond of her." He said, gesturing to the other droid.
"By all means, shes yours you won the game after all."
"She'll make a fine addition to the family, little Shiria needs someone to look after her while i'm away." The other moff said this with a smile.
And like that, with some proper acting and everything, it was done. Willoh was 'property' of Livani, but she couldn't be too eager to leave. Not until Orro handed over her 'controller'. She only bowed and waited, making sure to prepare to take care of a little organic, if that was what Livani meant. It was a good thing this wasn't an actual 'trade', otherwise Willoh might be a wee bit annoyed at everything.
Orro handed him the the controls for her fake restraining bolt, both men shook hands. "So you are staying around to buy some merchandise, before heading back into hutt space right?" The other moff asked, Orro nodded. "Indeed, the hutts need more slaves. And I need their support, for the time to come. I also need your support as well my friend, we can crush the rebels together if you join me." The other Moff shook his head. "You know my answer, I do not wish to get involved anymore. I'm too old to get involved in a war, I've got to think about Shiria's future here."
"So be it." Orro nodded, and shook the other man hand one last time and they both turned out. When Orro exited the building, and was hidden away in his shuttle he smiled. This is where the fun was going to begin.
As Orro left the other moff let out a sigh of relief. "That man is going to bring about his own downfall." The other moff looked over at his new prize. "Now, what are you programmed to do?" He asked, there was a glint in his eye, as he said that.
Off went Orro, and now Willoh belonged to this new man, or so he thought. That pointed question of his was a bit strange, but that was probably more due to the look he gave Willoh. Bowing, she said "I can do many things sir. Cleaning, cooking, human relations, and I have an enhanced capcity for human communications Master Livani. What would you have me do for my first task?" Considering Willoh was told this guy was a droid lover, she was expecting almost anything at this point.
Livani smiled at all of this, he looked geniuely happy. "Guess I found out why Orro bought you, guy must of been lonely. And I'm pretty sure, no woman would come near him with that stick up his ass." The other moff gestured for her to follow, and led her down the hallways of his manor. "I think I'm going to leave you with Shiria for the moment, while I go find find out what to do about our mutual friend." With that the other moff stopped at a door and opened it.
Shiria wasn't a little girl at all, but a teenager. The teen turned, and looked at her father and the droid, sighed and spoke. "It's fine, come in I guess." And with that Moff Livani turned and left the pair alone.
