Two years. It had been two years since the Mandalorian people had made the formerly known planet of Eden Prime their home and in those two years lots of things had changed.

For one tensions with the Council had gotten higher due to the split between races on who to favor as a major galactic power, the Council or the Mandalorians. As such when the Mandalorians had first settled on their new homeworld many spies had been captured and executed for trying to steal Mandalorian tech and secrets but always coming up short.

As for the Mandalorians themselves they had done quite well in building a home for themselves. When they had first arrived they had immediately created a few droid factories to produce more of said droids to aid in the manual labor of building defensive structures and later on the cities.

One of the first structures to be built were three orbital cannons around the planet to aid in its defense should a large fleet happen to attack. Next came the shipyard and a few military instillations for training and housing on duty Mandalorian warriors.

As for the Mandalorians standing in the galaxy they had quickly become a well recognized mercenary guild with Death Watch. Said guild had also snuffed out most of the competition rather violently. The first to fall was the largest mercenary guild the Blue Sun's. Death Watch had given them the choice of either disbanding and joining Death Watch or be wiped out.

Naturally the group responded rather poorly and decided to try and fight back against the Mandalorians. This resulted in most of them being killed off with the few remaining quickly surrendering and joining Death Watch. Afterwards when word had spread of the fate of the infamous mercenary guild the other smaller guilds quickly conceded and joined Death Watch.

These new initiates were quickly put through the rigorous Mandalorian Training to the point a few actually died during said training but those who survived had come out fine warriors and loyal to New Mandalore and it's people. No longer simple mercenaries but now warriors with a cause.

Needless to say things were looking well for the Mandalorian people.

New Mandalore, R and D department

An older Alren was currently walking down the hall of his peoples Research and Development department having been called by his lead scientist to see some new breakthroughs and approve some potential projects. The young leader was only glad that his peoples wealth had skyrocketed due to Death Watch gaining so many high paying contracts.

Alren had filled out quite a bit over the last two years as he started growing some facial hair and his physique had also become more defined with countless hours of training and taking quite a few contracts himself.

Walking into the bright white area Alren quickly caught sight of the man he was looking for who was currently typing away at a datapad but upon hearing the sound of the doors opening quickly looked up and smiled when he saw Alren approaching him.

"Ah sir! Glad you could accept my invitation!" Said Jenos as he made his way over to Alren while various Quarian and Mandalorian scientist went about their business with their own various projects.

"Well I am quite anxious to see what you've got to show me Jenos. So if you wouldn't mind lets get this over with shall we?" Gestured Alren.

Jenos quickly took the hint and lead Alren deeper into the department before stopping at a weapons testing room where he saw various firearms being fired at various types of targets. Following his lead scientist Alren soon found himself at an empty shooting range with a small table holding a few parts and only one weapon from what Alren could see of unfamiliar design.

"First off lets get the weapons out f the way hm?" Said Jenos with a smile while picking up a pistol resembling Alren's own that was strapped to his waist but it had a sleeker appearance with sliver streaks across it's surface.

"This is the G5 Chimera pistol. This little beauty was made to be a small arsenal in itself. As you can see it resembles your own personal pistol but this is anything but. For instance this pistol has a significantly stronger blast and a much more durable frame along with a self recharging battery. This little guy can fire up to two hundred rounds before needing a ten second recharge. We're currently working on extending the battery life and decreasing the recharge time." Said Jenos as he handed Alren the pistol who then began to look over it with a critical eye and couldn't deny that the weapon certainly interested him if what Jenos said about it was accurate.

"Impressive Jenos but you wouldn't be calling me down here if there wasn't more to this pistol than what you were telling me." Said Alren as he handed him back the weapon.

"Ah yes very observant sir. You see the reason this particular pistol is so special is because it is able of connecting with multiple attachments to serve different functions ranging from a Sniper rifle to a standard battle rifle." Spoke Genos

Now this impressed Alren to no end as he looked at the pistol with a new respect. This was deifinetly better than having to constantly interchange weapons for different jobs. Before he could voice his thought though Jenos had already laid down the pistol and was moving over to a large door at the back of the room Alren hadn't seen before.

"If you think that was impressive sir then wait until you see this. This will really make your jaw drop." Said Jenos with a mischievous smile as he pressed the pad to open the door.

Alren looked at the opening door with a critical eye wondering what his lead scientist was up to. Then he saw what was behind said door and felt his jaw drop in awe. Behind the door was a massive droid standing at nearly seven meters tall. The behemoth resembled a cross between a Zororian rock-lion and a Karran beetle from their original galaxy and was covered in steel grey with dark red armor.

There was no denying what this beast of war was, this was a Basilisk droid. Ridden by the Mandalorians of old as war machines that made Mandalorians a deadly fighting force.

"Wha-? But how di-?" Alren tried to say something but was completely baffled by this new development.

"I knew this would surprise you! Hahaha! It took some serious digging but eventually I managed to find the original schematics for the Basilisk droids and thought you would like first dibs before I started producing more of them. This bad boy has all of the original fittings from its predecessors only now with some great shielding." Said Jenos proudly.

Alren then took a few steps forward and couldn't help but marvel at this beauty of a war machine. He never thoughts he would see one outside of a museum. Yet now here one stood before him brand spanking new and raring to go. Hesitantly he reached out and laid a hand on the shockwave generator rods that made up its face. Almost instantly the droid activated and moved its large head to 'look' at Alren who had frozen at the sudden movement of the droid.

The two seemed to stare at each-other for a moment before the Basilisk droid leaned forward to nuzzle against Alrens hand which was still on its 'face'. In response Alren then began to pet the large machine as a small smile broke out across his face.

"Well it seems she likes you sir. I followed the original blueprints to the letter so she does possess an AI like that of a domesticated animal. She also seems to have already formed an empathic bond with you. Truly fascinating." Spoke Jenos while typing in a few things onto his datapad.

"I think I'll call you Tal. I must say Jenos this was certainly worth the trip and I expect more of these Basilisk droids to be made and given to our high ranking warriors. The others need to grow a little more before they can take on the responsibility of owning one of these beasts." Said Alren as he walked out of the large room quickly being followed by his new companion.

"Oh but that isn't all sir."

"And what more is there Jenos? What else have you got for me to see?" Asked Alren wondering what other wonders Jenos had given birth to with that brain of his.

Instead of answering Jenos typed in a few commands into his datapad and stood there. Alren was about to ask what he was doing when the doors behind him opened causing him to turn around and nearly find his jaw on the ground once more.

Standing in the doorway was a woman with light skin with a purple shade. Her shoulder length ebony hair was held back in a small ponytail. Her eyes were a darker shade of purple and seemed to glow as a small smile played over her face which Alren had to admit gave any Asarii he had seen a run for their money. She currently wore a Quarian version of Mandalorian armor that Alren thought looked vaguely familiar with her helmet tucked under one arm.

"You better close your mouth Alren before you catch flies." Said the woman whose voice the young leader instantly recognized.

"Tali?"

"In the flesh."

Turning to lok at Jenos Alren's gaze demanded an explanation on how the Quarian women was walking around without the need of her helmet.

"I simply did as you asked sir. It took some time but I eventually managed to create a serum to aid the Quarians immune system. All I had to do was modify the serum used for us and voila. Took me nearly a year to figure that out though. Tali here just happened to be our first volunteer for the new serum. With a few more tests it should be ready for mass production." Said Jenos happily.

Alren looked between the two smiling people with a neutral look on his face for a few moments. Then stopping on Jenos he placed both hands on the scientists shoulders and looked the man dead in the eye.

"Remind me to get you a raise." Alren said seriously.

Well there's the next chapter guys. Review and/or PM me. Until then, Nicranger out!