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Maze of the Pit
Pit Claims Area
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the Renraku agent is scraped off the floor and taken to a limited medical faclity before being sent up to Pitstop
everyone else is chatting and gossiping on the events of what they saw
interupted by the claim computers beeping
a droid voice announces "Statement: droids have finished the sweep evaluation of both claims."
"First claim stands as is, second claim has continued digging by use of droids, not stopping as requested"
"Admin rules: first claim has right of way" the holo updates showing the perimeter driving into the side
of the corperation claim like a bite mark in a fruit
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the computer system beeps
"Request: will original claim owners mark files to acknowledge."
sending the files to the datapads for the corp agents and Bo and Mack
reluctantly the agents mark the files knowing they lose the claim again if they do not sign
pulling the signed files from each of the datapads
"Claim ownership established, areas established, all fees paid, registered and logged."
states the computer
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Bo and Mack head to the computer for some last minute detailing
waving the rest of the team over
"Paperwork set up as you suggested Leeds" states Bo, Mack just grinning
the elders grin, looking the files over then signing
cuffing naruto on the shoulder Mack points Naruto to the computer console
"You sign too, Brat. You worked your ass off for this also."
reading the document, "Are you sure?" seeing all four nodding he signs
Leeds nods, "Welcome to the claim."
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the distracted Republic Noble seeing the full packs, waves the group to the evaluation office
worried about about how his bosses were going to land on him for loosing the claim and bolluxing up
the fact of the three corperations pulling a back knifing was not new, but the scale was shifting.
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taking their packs to the republic reps office they start pulling cases from their packs
escorted into the windowed office, the weapons carried are set aside before entry
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looking over the packs being opened and emptied he sees a couple midsized crystal tubes pulled out
but oddly they are not put forward
after feeding the shard trays into the pressurized case for crystal analyzation, he activates the crystal scanners
checking his sensors for crystals and finding none unreported, the noble sends the group a puzzled look,
"No large crystals?" as the extra tubes are repacked
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"No, probably cleaned out by the corps as they mined."
curious, but not wanting to lengthen out the analysis
"Many of these shards were in th' mynock nest, some may have been the larger crystals"
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"Many were trying to have us sell options or info in route to here" Bo comments
"You're holding back on the Admin?" the white faced noble asks
"Not us, we would lose the claim anyway." Nameless replies, "Also we just scored high on bribes from the corperations" holding up several cred sticks.
"Ones wanting the duos info on what was being mined and the duo wanting to know what happened to their men"
"Even gave us updated info on the going prices."
"More than one of the other miners was looking to get in on working parts of our claim if the fees or 'tax' was reasonable."
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"Looks like Admin trying to 'pad the bill' and cost us our claim, did not sit well with many of the other miners" Mack replies
"Word of mouth says many are packing up, that the robbery being done is not worth the effort of harvesting crystal,"
"if people cannot work claims without unreasonable charges then they will be closing up shop."
Leeds snarks "Someone else might be holding back till the price becomes more stable."
"Or working elsewhere." points out Nameless
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"Also with the corperations not setting up the doors on our original claim and biting into the area around our claim,
"Lady Luck and Murphey says that the mine may breech soon, and flood." states Mack
whipping around at the statement, the noble stands alarmed "What!?"
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"The partnered corps dug a bore hole for samples, then left it open and mynocks moved in from somewhere using the bore."
"Their own team was wiped out by their own mistakes." Leeds explains
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"Might even be smuggling crystals out by using bore holes by using them as carry tubes to bring out the crystals bypassing you entirely."
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"Do you have any proof?" asks the noble
muttering "Yea." Leeds pulls out his datapad "Recorded the mynocks coming out of the bore before I shot the vermin."
pulling up the recording, he relays a copy of the holo vid to the nobles datapad
"We did a temporary seal to keep the mynock out and will do a permanant one ourselves,"
"chamber is also shield-sealed in case of flood, and is behind a magma-lock so our claim is not at risk."
"Sadly no crystals in that chamber."
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the noble hearing the details after seeing the video almost panics
sending for the mazeboss, he sends the mazeboss off with several teams to review the droid holoscans of the duo corp claim
including orders to see if the duo are setting up magma-locks
he also starts sending memos off to his bosses up above to track the bore path
also to be on watch be on watch for bore smuggling, after adding the details and notes
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"We might even follow the bore up in case to find and clear the vermin nest."
"Hate the pests" comments leeds, "Can't send droids, mynocks will just snack again."
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"May even sell the claim, too much looking like its jinxed." mutters Bo,
"Let all the corperations fight it out, if admin is going to be playin the corp's games."
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"We even have the duo on approach already, they may try to dig around and block any claim expansion." points out Nameless,
"They have more droids an' time. They can block us off and expand around and seal us off."
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Leeds takes over the conversation looking to the rep, "Told a few of their rivals that we might sell if the price is right,"
"may even have offers once we hit pitstop, we already agreed not to let them do crossbidding and divide us against each other."
"We sell as a group or not at all, any one trying a divide and conquer, is automatically out of the running."
"Also we paid for the claim rights for the year, with extra locked in, to keep the claim ours for longer if things do shut down or go crazy."
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leaving a shell-shocked rep behind the group takes their money exiting the office
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Maze of the Pit
Pit Claims Area
Elevators Up
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on the elevator up, after activating a jammer to disable the sensors Nameless grabs Naruto by the arm
"When you took down the rep, what did you think you were doing?"
"I thought it would be best if he did not finish his statement, and focused him on Zabuza instead of us."
"Figured what he was saying was bad for us, as all the miners and guards started to get greedy looks, crossing their faces, even the wookiee."
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echoes from somewhere closer
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70000 LY from core
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elsewhere
on a hidden rim world
a hyper ring Delta-7 fighter approaches an ocean covered world
beacon destination the floating wave city
Tipoca
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omake
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shiver, women thinking scary things
Tsunade being as strong as she is, is known for her punishments more
if she says you have your head up your rump
she's the one who usually puts it there
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the medic nins have with the practice provided
gotten to the point it only takes an hour to fix
sadly
the incontinence takes months to go away
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