Damian sat at the desk in the hangar where he always spent most of his time when not on duty. Damian knew he should be sleeping, but really he wasn’t interested in sleep. He wanted to get some more work done on this particular project before he pitched it to the egg heads in the research labs for further development. Damian’s hands flew over the delicate circuitry with practiced ease as he worked on the system.<br/><br/>“You still here?” came a voice from behind him. Damian recognized that voice as another man in his unit. He didn’t look up. He didn’t have to. He never really cared to talk or ‘hang out’ with the others in his unit. It wasn’t Damian’s thing. Damian liked his work and though he got along with the other’s that made up his group, he really wasn’t social enough to be friends with any of them. When he didn’t respond to the man the guy sighed heavily, “fine whatever, you know Damian if you started actually acting like you had a social life you might end up making friends. Whatever man I’m going to get food, you coming or staying?” Again Damian didn’t answer. Why bother. It was down time for them, their shift was over. He didn’t want or need social activities. The man left with some other grumbled words about insociable people. Whatever.<br/><br/>Damian returned to fiddling with the systems. Analyzing it’s intricate components and how they meshed together. He needed to cross-feed the three components. As he worked he heard the chirping voice of the AI.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">There will be a test with three other companies. Be sure to return to the team lab for testing in... two hours</span>. He scowled at that news. So much for down time. So much for getting this done. Sighing he continued to tweak the system. He was getting close to getting it just right, but he wasn’t quite there yet. He had a LOT more work left on this particular little test he was doing.<br/><br/>Well his job came first and as always Damian found himself wondering if he should spend the last remaining moments of his time working on the system he was playing with in the dark corner of the hangar that he called his own. Or if he should put it away and get some lunch before the tests began.