Eyes of Argus

[Burkhart Kelborn]

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The paint was beginning to fleck and peal on his armor. At least the orange and red parts were. Those were the majority of the plates of his Beviinir armor. His right arm and hand was the only bit painted red though. The small crumb like pieces of paint that had dried long ago fell to the deck of the cockpit.

His fellow Kelborn clan mates inside his ship were not tensed or overly worried about their situation. The Field Marshal was the governor of this system and had his troops pull away from the hyperwave bouy. The large construct sat on the edge of the system and was normally guarded by sentry turrets and a squadron of starfighters at a minimum. But today he and one other associate would be slicing into the system and setting up his own 'wire tap' of any communications going in, out and through the system.

Keying the communication link he established a secure connection with Cardinal. "Ya brought an EVA suit or flight suit right?" He was going to need it unless he was planning on directly docking with the small maintenance corridor to do the tap.

@Brick

 

[Cardinal Paroaria]

Cardinal checked his Gladius Blaster Rifle for the fifth time before walking down the corridor of his VT-1100. He wore his shining gold and black Enforcer Armour. On his hip, a captured Sith lightsaber hung, worn mostly for decoration. Cardinal's men were armed to the teeth with weaponry and ready should anything go wrong. His ship followed the legendary Mandalorian Field Marshal, Burkhart Kelborn's ship. Cardinal was excited yet somewhat nervous to work with the Mandalorian. He had heard great stories of the Morling, and he believed Burkhart was going to be a great associate and asset. Cardinal stepped into the cockpit when he heard the voice of the Field Marshal. "Of course I brought a EVA suit. I hope this all goes smoothly."

Cardinal did not know that much about slicing, which was what they were going to do to the hyperspace buoy. However, Cardinal was going to help Burkhart in whatever way possible, if to have the Morling as an ally.

 

[Burkhart Kelborn]

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"Good. Yerr goona need it." He said in response. As he kept his scanners rolling the two ships approached the docking area for the maintenance. It was little more than a small cabin with a docking tube. They could connect their ship to it but it was a good idea to have a suit just in case. "I'll keep an eye oot since mah shap has the bettar scannars."

As he waited for Cardinal to get on with connecting to the systems Burkhart pulled out from a wooden box a single thick hand rolled cigara. Snipping the vice he proceeded to light a new one and place it in his lips for a few puffs. His own crew seemed to think this was going to be a dull affair due to a lack of chatter between them. There was no point in him trying to chat them up. He was feeling the same stoic mindset at the moment.

@Brick

 

[Cardinal Paroaria]

As the two ships slowly approached the docking area, Cardinal sighed in anticipation. "Copy, i'm moving out now." Cardinal exited his ship, a tool bag containing equipment needed to slice into the buoy, snuggled in his arm. Burkhart must be enjoying himself in there. Cardinal could imagine the Morling smoking a cigar or doing something that didn't require much thinking.

Cardinal breathed as he floated through space. He activated the suit repulsor and he flew through space towards the buoy. A few minutes later, Cardinal reached the buoy, he powered off the repulsor, and turned on his magnetic boots. Cardinal opened his bag, and looked at different tools. Breaking the communication silence, "Uh, Burkhart, how exactly am i supposed to slice this thing."

@Darasuum

 

[Burkhart Kelborn]

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Hearing the confirmation was good. At least he communicated. Some people lacked that ability and it was rather annoying. Maybe Burkhart was getting old and more gruff as a result. He swore that just the other day he found a few grey hairs on his body. But for now he just sat back and enjoyed his vices.

He softly played a song in the background that was quiet enough to hear any beeping alerts. In fact it probably would not even register on an open commlink if he had to talk to Cardinal.

A few moments would pass and then one such chirp came in. "Ya tallin me ya never sliced anythin before?" The Morling had thought that it was a rather easy thing to do these days with technologhy. For the most part the hardware did the work for you. "You'll naed ta open up the panel. If ya gote ah lightsaber or a fusion cutter or uh...well anythin that can cut through metal i gass y'all be able to get in....course you could just use a cosmowrench or somethin an open it oop."
@Brick

 

[Cardinal Paroaria]

Cardinal sighed as he looked through his bag. He couldn't name half the tools in his bag. Heck it wasn't even his tool kit, it was on of his mens. Cardinal never had to slice anything, he never even had to be in the field. He'd usually just hire someone to go to it for him. Unfortuatly Cardinal was the one that had to go out there, but it shouldn't be a problem. Cardinal listened to Burkhart's response. "I don't do the dirty work." Cardinal would have thought the Morling would have known that Cardinal wasn't exactly the feild guy, he was the paper pusher. Listening to Burkhart's instuctions, Cardinal thought. "Well, we're in luck, it so happens i have a lightsaber." Cardinal closed the tool bag, and secured the strap to his body. He then unhooked his lightsaber from his waist, and he ignited it.

Cardinal took a few moments to watch the red glow of the Sith saber shine against the buoy. "Here goes nothing." Cardinal pointed the saber towards the buoy, and carefully and slowly cut a rectangle in the buoy. A few moments, the work was done. Cardinal retracted his saber, and gently ripped off any remaining metal peices. "Ok, i'm in, what's next?"

@Darasuum

 

[Burkhart Kelborn]

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The Morling stifled a kneejerk reaction to laugh mockingly at Cardinal from his response. His father had instilled a mentality of leading by example. Also humble beginnings and that hard work was important. Having things given to you was either charity, a favor or some sort of privilege. Burkhart had never really had much privilege and why he felt his employees and clan believed in him was because he was very much capable of leading from the front, never asking anyone to do anything that he would not do himself.

Hearing that he did have a lightsaber though made the Mandalorian cock an eyebrow. He had only been joking though that would be a line of questioning that would undoubtedly come up later. A few moments would pass as the man cut out the opening to the terminal's wired system.

"Find an internal servicin' port an ploog yer port scannar inta it. The rest will be dohn by the scannar." The terminal was used by maintenance people from time to time. In this case the access was just with a lightsaber rather than a proper tool. "After ya do that then we just wait fer it ta finish and pop on outta here. Drinks an everythin when we get back."

@Brick

 

[Cardinal Paroaria]

Cardinal frowned as the Morling laughed at his explanation. Cardinal had thought that the rank the Morling had held, he would be entitled to certain privileges, such as having people do things for you. Apparently he was wrong. Cardinal should have known though, only the Mandalorian warriors were so ignorant to have to serve on the front lines when not needed to. They'd rather sacrifice their lives, teaching others. Cardinal didn't have the time, nor the lives to waste teaching people that wouldn't learn.

It was relatively dark in space, so Cardinal produced a simple flashlight that he held in his mouth. Upon hearing Burkhart's instuction, Cardinal took out what he hoped to be a so called "port scanner". He then looked around the inside of the buoy to find this "internal servicing port". He grunted as he found something that he hoped was the port, and he plugged in the port scanner. Grunting, Cardinal replied,"Thee Ort Sconner 'as een lugged en." Cardinal didn't know if the Morling understood what he was saying due to the light still being held in his light, and he sure hoped Burkhart didn't think Cardinal was mocking his accent or whatever. Cardinal removed the light with his hand, "Sorry about that, had a tool in my mouth, the scanner had been plugged in. Time to wait i suppose."

@Darasuum

 

[Burkhart Kelborn]

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The sound of Cardinal's voice came back but this time it was muffled. After a couple of moments Burkhart heard the explination and cocked an eyebrow to himself and then furrowed his brow. How is he holding a tool in his mouth when he is in a space suit? He thought to himself. In the end he just decided to not ask but also just not believe the human man fully either.

The time to wait would pass quickly. Burkhart had just been worried about brigands arriving. But it seemed like there were none. The two men sat in silence while the port scanner did its work. Cardinal would be able to upload the program and settings that Burkhart had wanted. With that done they could return back to the station with nobody the wiser.

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[Cardinal Paroaria]

A few moments later, and everything was finished. "Alright, looks like everything's done here. Lets go." Cardinal returned to his ship, and removed the space suit. Both ships left the buoy and headed back to the space station. "Lets go have ourselves a cup of tea."

@Darasuum\
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