Affirmation and Invitation

[wardeninexile]

1)

A few days after the battle against the Inspectors, a dropship (similar to but not the one attached to the Chalice) bearing the insignia of Clan Wolf arrives.

One Ranna is there as the dropship unloads some supplies, weapon pods and mech part. While the technicians transfer them onboard Chalice, a woman wearing the Wolves' formal dress uniform alights the visiting ship without much fanfare.

Ranna salutes her. "Galaxy Commander."

The other woman returns the salute before smiling, "I come bearing word from Khan Phelan Ward - it is official, we have entered into an agreement to fight these 'Inspectors' you reported on."

She then hands over what appears to be a datadisk. "Furthermore, this is a message from your House. I am aware this is rather irregular, but we do live in irregular times - since I am already making the trip, I offered the House Leader to carry it here."

For once, Ranna appears almost speechless, before she nods, "Aff. Thank you."

The galaxy commander chuckles with some familiarity, "Perhaps you will gain a promotion after this, Star Captain, quiaff?"

A grin. "Perhaps, Jocelyn, perhaps."

After some chit-chat, Jocelyn will board the dropship once more, leaving Ranna with a contemplative look as she idles in the hangar.

2)

Some time later, invitations are send out, either in person by Ranna or left at your room/locker/email.

Dear comrades,

There will be a formal event taking place in Wolf City in the coming weeks, and I would like to extend my invitation to you as guests, friends and allies to visit our enclave in Siberia on the next dropship departure.

Should you not wish to witness the event, feel free to look around the city. As of now, we have yet to integrate our currency with the rest of Terra, so if you wish to trade and barter, you may do so using my requisition chip.

I do encourage bringing goods that you can spare in order to trade - it will aid us greatly.

Ranna

((OOC: There will be a post a few days later for the actual visit.))

Comments

[saikyocivrobo]

Maybe some of your food and software? I'm curious about how they look like.

[wardeninexile]

What kind of software?

[saikyocivrobo]

Hmm...

Do you have video games?

[wardeninexile]

Hmm. That is a good question. I suspect there might be some among the Civilian caste. I shall trade around for it.

[saikyocivrobo]

Excellent. Do you want anything in return? Ever since Prometheus left scraps of Artifex's database in my brain, I found it easy to create even complex chemical compounds.

[wardeninexile]

I am uncertain what complex chemical compounds you can make though. What do you think will be useful to my Clan?

[saikyocivrobo]

Do you need fuel? All those mechs can't run on solar energy.

[wardeninexile]

Our mechs run on nuclear fusion - fuel is not an issue there.

[saikyocivrobo]

Other vehicles too, I presume? Hmm...

Do you need plastics? Radioactive materials? Artificial fertilizer? Medicine?

[wardeninexile]

We could use ferro-steel, ferro-titanium and diamond weave fibers.

[saikyocivrobo]

I'm running a chemistry lab, not a steel mill. And if I had any diamonds at hand, I'd just trade them instead.

[wardeninexile]

Artificial fertiliser will help then.

[saikyocivrobo]

I figured. It must be hard to grow crops in Siberia.

...Do you happen to have some kind of terraforming technology, by any chance?

[wardeninexile]

Aff, compared to the Clan Homeworlds, Siberia is actually a rather friendly environment.

[saikyocivrobo]

It's also a friendly environment compared to many barren areas of Earth. Second Impact wasn't kind to us.

But there has to be a way to return them to the state they were in before... Do you know what I mean?

[wardeninexile]

Neg. The barren areas of Earth are considered friendly environment if you have seen what the Clan Homeworlds were prior.

There may be no way to restore them back to the original condition, but they can be terraformed if necessary.

[saikyocivrobo]

As long as they become something where people and animals can actually live, I'm not complaining. Hopefully after all this conflict is over, all the new technologies can be used to help with that, rather than just fighting.

[wardeninexile]

If all goes well, our terraforming technology may not be utilised at all.

[saikyocivrobo]

And I'll do what I can to ensure it idoes go well.

But knowing how that technology works would still help.

[wardeninexile]

I suppose there must have been attempts by scientists native to Terra who tried to work on such technology?

[saikyocivrobo]

Of course. My university is associated with an institute dedicated to that, actually. Unfortunately, all the war kind of gets in the way.