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[Ora Trel]

Ora accepted the gun, but just shrugged when Louis asked her what to do with all the weapons. "Keep them? Sell them? Hand them off to the authorities?" She really didn't care what happened to the extra cargo as long as her own got back home safely. Orautomatons didn't make battle droids, so the weapons and their parts were of no use to her. "It's up to you I guess."

As for the pirate captain, that was a bit of a different story.

"I- I don't know. Why don't you just turn him in? He might have some sort of price on his head." They had a while to decide anyways. It'd take them several days at the very minimum to get back to Coruscant. "Why don't you sleep on it? I'm gonna go disassemble the bounty droid."

Ora had ever intention of shoving the parts into a box and bringing it back to her warehouse to study its AI. If she did want to get into the combat droid market one day, it might be of some value to her.

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[Louis Lorsoni]

Louis probably didn't need this much weaponry- he was just one man! Not an army. Maybe he could sell them? Who would he sell them to? It would seem awfully suspicious of a pilot no one has heard of before handling weapons like a freaking rocket launcher. Of course, Louis could always be honest with the authorities on Coruscant tell the truth of what happened. But then...Louis would probably have to turn in Captain Killian. Well...there was a first time for everything, right? Louis couldn't believe he was actually considering this, but maybe he'd find better luck selling the weapons on the black market. Of course, no one needed to get hurt.

"Uh, right, yeah. I'll sleep on it." But instead of doing as stated, Louis headed over to the crate where Killian was sound asleep. "Wakey, wakey, little fella." Louis tapped a finger on the crate, interrupting Killian half way through his snore as he awoke. "Wuh...What'chu want?" The Anzellan asked groggily. "If I let you out to talk, you won't try and punch me in thr groin, again, right?" There was a long pause, but there wasn't any snoring. Killian must have been thinking. "Let...let me out? Yarg, yew and yer lass brought about the end of Cap'n Barbosa Killian's rein of terror! Yew...yew 'er supposed to turn thy tiny hind-parts in...aye?"

"How about...We discuss the terms of your arrest? Maybe...maybe we can come to an agreement." Louis was surprised to see how devout to the whole pirate shindig this guy was committed to. "Aye. We may negotiate." Killian still held that somber tone of his, but Louis let him out nonetheless. The Anzellan carefully poked his head out of the crate before crawling out of it. He looked much more refined than he had when Louis first met him. Killian was even fiddling with his fingers like a toddler who knew they were in trouble.

"What if you join my crew? You'd be my first mate." The Anzellan's expression changed from wonder to skepticism. "Why would you do that?" Louis honestly just didn't want to see the guy go off to prison. "I believe in second chances. And...I can't run this kind of job by myself. Some of your expertise would be pretty helpful." Louis flinched when the little guy jumped into the air, expecting to get throat punched. But instead, Louis found himself caught in the tiny embrace of the pirate captain. "Aye, blessed be the heart of the youth..." The little Anzellan said gratefully before making his way onto Louis' shoulder. The Engineer was glad with this change of heart.

"Well, Barbosa, welcome to the crew." Louis' grin grew as he made his way over to Ora, who was taking apart the droid with ease. "Argh, remarkable woman, she be. Definitely a keeper." The Anzellan whispered into Louis' ear. He felt his face flush red with embarrassment, "Er, uh...Ora...Turns out, Barbosa Killian isn't that bad...How'd you take that thing down? I don't think I would've been able to do that..."

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[Ora Trel]

While Louis was off talking to the former pirate captain, Ora had drug a crate over to where the bounty droid had been left to lie. The first thing she did was disconnect the wires running to and from the droid's power cell. It would be incredibly unideal if it decided to "wake up" while she was attempting to disassemble it. Then she slowly detached its frontal armor piece to give her easier access to the wires. It took a lot of effort seeing as the durasteel droid was anything but lightweight, but she got it off just before Louis and the Anzellan on his shoulders arrived.

Ora had the biggest piece of armor plating and the power cell disconnected when Louis asked her how she took the thing down. The Nautolan gestured for him to give her a moment, then used both her hands to yank a wire out of its socket. Once it was disconnected, she would pull the damaged ARAC out of her pocket and laugh, "I threw my ARAC droid at it and gave it a real shock!" She was surprised it even worked. Her guess was the bounty droid must've had to just finished charging up, and the flow of electricity from the spider droid overloaded the battery and caused it to shut down. "If it would've been at anything but full battery it might've done nothing at all."

She was very thankful for her luck, to say the least.

"So, uh, are you, er, keeping him?" That was the only reason Ora could come up with as to why the former pirate captain was sitting on Louis' shoulders.

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[Louis Lorsoni]

"That was clever." Louis gave a nod of his head before looking at the Anzellan. "We'll see. He's on probation for now. If I can trust him, I'll hold onto him." Currently, Barbosa was humming his song from before, paying little attention to what was going on around him. "He might be small, but I need a co-pilot. Anzellans are pretty good with tech, anyway, so he might be of some used to us yet." Maybe the captain had a reputation with other pirates, so that if something like this happened again, Killian could pull them out of the situation unscathed.

"So...as far as employment goes...do you think we'll be seeing each other again?" Louis kicked at the ground below him, folding his arms behind his back. Ora was something else- like Barbosa had mentioned before -and he enjoyed her enthusiasm and quick thinking. They made a good team, and Louis was going to probably leave it at that for the moment.

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[Ora Trel]

"Thank you!" she beamed at the compliment. As for the former pirate captain, if he thought it was worth it, so be it. As long as it didn't affect the job, she didn't care. Speaking of...

"I mean, if we still get everything back to Coruscant safely I wouldn't mind keeping you on the shortlist for pilots to hire!" She gave him a thumbs-up, then quickly went back to disassembling the bounty droid and putting the pieces carefully into the box. Once she studied the AI, she figured she could reprogram it to do the heavy lifting back at her warehouse. Oh, and give it a nice new paint job! "Yellow is such a hazardous color..."

Once everything was in the box, she wrenched the top down tight and looked over to Louis. "Would you mind helping me push this back to the cargo hold before you go back up to the cockpit?"

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[Louis Lorsoni]

"Oh, great! I'll make sure our next ventures aren't so rambunctious." Louis giggled. That was awesome! Louis might have actually just made it as a pilot! Screw the low wages- this was so cool. "Sure thing." Louis assisted Ora in carrying the heavy crate over to the cargo hold. It was pretty interesting to see someone take apart such an intimidating creation and reduce to nothing more than droid parts. If there was a starship around, Louis could take it apart, too, but given that ships were usually bigger than droids, it might've taken a lot longer than the short amount of time Ora operated.

Once the crate was set down, the pilot wiped his brow with his sleeve. Barbosa was still humming and bumbling, but changed the tune every now and then. He really was quite the character. Louis wasn't really sure how the little guy managed to wrangle a bunch of pirates together. Then something else occurred to him; Maybe Captain Killian wasn't the actual captain and was more of a face for the operation? Well, that would mean the Louis had just made enemies with the Haxion Brood. Hm.

Was that a good thing? No, not really. Was it a bad thing? Yeah, sort of. There was that old saying that had something to with 'there's no such thing as bad publicity' but Louis had to disagree. The Haxion Brood was probably not the best organization the grab the attention of.

"Is there anything else you need help with?" Louis got himself out of yet another one of his emotional spirals. They were on course to Coruscant, and the Republic was not into pirates. So they'd be fine! Until- No, no, nope. Not going there. Everything is fine. The engineer told himself. Besides, he didn't want to worry Ora. They already had enough action for one day. If Ora didn't need anything at the moment, Louis would head back to the cockpit and await their arrival. For a first job, Louis didn't think he did half bad.

"Is Sullust the farthest you've been from your home?" Louis asked curiously. "I've been around, myself...but not anywhere crazy."

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[Ora Trel]

There wasn't anything more Ora needed his help with, so she followed him back to the cockpit and took the liberty of plopping herself down in the co-pilot's seat. She had no plan to touch any of the controls (she'd never flown a ship in her life!), but she also had no plan to stand a chat either.

"It is!" she would answer enthusiastically. "I was born on Coruscant. I've never had much wanderlust, but I'd like to go to Glee Anselm one day," she added absentmindedly. Maybe she could bring her parents with her too. It'd be like a family vacation!

The rest of the trip would thankfully go without a hitch, and after all the cargo was offloaded onto the ship that would take it under the surface to the warehouse, she would express her intention to keep hiring him for cargo transportation. Ora would then wish him good luck with the former pirate captain, and depart with the cargo. She couldn't wait to get her fingers into the bounty droids programming!

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