"What's under the tarp, Ms. Arkenarn?" said the blue robed guard at Cloud City Spaceport. His voice was raspy under the mask, and he shifted the vibropike slightly in his hand. The man didn't wait for an answer, instead pulling the blanket off her loaded repulsor cart.
"And I trust you have a cargo license?"
"Of course," she said, handing over the papers.
The guard took a moment to inspect her documentation before asking a series of questions about her cargo.
"Bringing work home I see."
"Yes sir. This droid's been giving me a lot of trouble, with the internal hardware I mean."
"Hm. One IA R2 unit. Identification color: blue. Sensor color: red. Mass: 32 kilograms. Programming type: not applicable?"
"Yeah, I haven't gotten to install the gender programs yet. I'm still working on the hardware."
"I see. Make sure you get these papers in order when the droid is operational."
"Yes, sir. I will, if I ever can finish him."
The guard vanished behind throngs of people, both Humans and non-Humans, as Akorae pushed the repulsor cart through the wide-open entryway of Cloud City Spaceport. As she passed by the monuments and tall, spire-like buildings that make up Cloud City's famous skyline, shady alleyways full of greedy eyes stared at her and her cargo. That was just enough incentive for her to speed up.
When she reached her apartment spire, Akorae flashed the card at the scanner, making the door open. Safe inside the building, she pushed the cart into the elevator and put her finger over the button for the 12th floor; the location of her abode. When the lift stopped at her floor, the doors spread away from each other, and Akorae forced the bulky cart out of the otherwise spacious elevator. When the gaping mouth of the elevator had closed, the human made her way down the deserted corridor to door L42; her door. Akorae flashed the key again, and her door slid open with a small hydraulic hiss.
She positioned the loaded repulsion engines to tip the blue-domed droid off the cargo bed to a standing position. Akorae grabbed a quick bite of imported Tatooinian lamta, then redoubled her efforts on her newly acquired equipment.