Waza settled into the copilots seat of the Dead Parrot, “Ready when you are, I’m looking forward to this adventure with you. It’s been sometime since we traveled together.”
Wenet punched in the last of the coded instructions and lifted the ship from the landing pad.
“Its been sometime; lets go find things.” She said as the ship rocketed up through the atmosphere.
The Dead Parrot, sliced through the clouds like a hot knife through butter. In no time the blue skies faded into the blackness of space. ”So, where are we going exactly?” she said with a giggle. As always the Kushiban had said ’yes’ to an adventure without fully knowing the details.
”Wayland?” said as she glanced at the coordinates she had just typed into the navcom. ”Don’t think I’ve been there before” she furrowed her brow thinking about it as she took the ship out of orbit. She pressed a few buttons to warm up the hyper drive as she continued to navigate towards the jump coordinates. ”So what’s at Wayland? Some kind of lab? An imperial cloning facility?” she glanced at Waza for a moment. He reached for a data pad that contained all the information and scanned over it. ”Yes there is an abandoned imperial science facility hidden in the jungles. Most of if is in ruins but there are several vaults that haven’t been opened.”
At the mention of unopened vaults Wenet’s ears twitch. ”Ooh treasure?!” “probably not the kind you are thinking my friend.” waza laughed. “experimental records, prototypes, genetic samples..” he explained. ”oh… Ok” Wenet wrinkled her nose.
The hyperdrive beeped, the Kushiban grabbed the leaver and pushed it forward. The speckles of stars extended into silver lines as they made the jump into hyperspace. ”So science stuff” she muttered as she put the ship on auto pilot. ”Yes sience stuff.. But we get to explore the ruins.” Waza smiled at her.
“Science stuff can turn a profit or be of use to the clan. Maybe some things we can off load to the galactic market.” Waza said with a wink, leaving the unspoken implication of possible black market profits.
“Besides we get a chance to see how much we have grown in the force since our last adventure. Ms. Equite rank. Congrats on that by the way.” Waza watched the stars turn into the mottled streaks and relished in the hum and vibration of the ships power running through his body.
Wenet turned the seat towards Waza and folded her arm. She had a proud smirk on her face, ”Well thank you” she said and wiggled her nose ”seems that despite everything that has happened, clan Scholea Palatinea does see my potential” she added with a more serious tone.
She unfolded her arms and relaxed into her seat. “So is it just us? Or did you also send word to others to join the fun?” she asked as she understood that this could become a dangerous mission. ”We could still send word.. It will take quite a bit to get to Wayland after all. Might be wise to get more help, in case there are experiments roaming around” as the words came from her lips a shiver creeped down her spine.