Zir’frah regarded his boss and quirked a rare smile. Something that made his black razor sharp fangs flash. This would be fun after all. He regarded the only man he let call him Kir. Anyone else who tried that would meet with a knife in the kidney quickly. He wasn’t a tolerant man when it came to his name. Especially not when he was in a corner.<br/><br/>“Yah you ungrateful worm you called me back right when the fun was starting. You cost me a hot date Dar hope this will be worth it. Cuze if we die I’m so going to come back from hell to haunt your ass!” Zir said darkly. His accent was so thick that most of the words slurred together, anyone who was use too his speech would have an easy time understanding him anyone not used to it would struggle to understand him. His eyes narrowing to points. Their glow intensifying. He thought for a moment.<br/><br/>“Well.... I could always cross the shields and dampeners into the hyperdrive and retro engines. I can cut our generating time down to about 3 seconds rather then the typical ten with safeguards. And I can crossfeed the controls to full manual. You’ll have greater maneuverability, but no computer to prevent you from destroying something. So you’ll have to listen to the feedback system and rely on your piloting skills. Might be a short trip otherwise. Also if you enter the Hyperspace window without the shields restored to full strength well disintegrate also ending the trip rather short,” he said his face turning serious, “depends you trust me Dar?” He replied. His voice no longer holding the earlier teasing. This was business and it was serious, it wasn’t time to play around.<br/><br/>---<br/><br/>Eduian finished and rose. He looked at the monitors and felt his breath leave him. People were running in every directions. Children were screaming and crying. There wasn’t any order to the madness down there. He swore. If someone didn’t take charge they were going to have mass casualties. Civilians were simply not prepared for emergencies like this and the base was full of Civilians. A lot of shops and operations of the regular port side was done by the Civilians and some even lived on base. Transports had come in earlier with tourists, families and people relocating.<br/><br/>Eduian turned away from the monitors and turned on the channel on his PD. “Efran, take your unit to sector E-9-level-10 get those people moving. Anyone who causes problems is to be arrested. We have no time to deal with people wanting to save their business. Their lives are at stake.”<span style="font-style: italic">I’ll never understand people,</span>Eduian thought as he rushed through the empty upper levels. The bay was filling up quickly, but that was organized. He wasn’t needed there. The military commanders would get that one sorted. The E-9 sector was the business districts and those levels were where the thick of civilian population was. He repeated his instructions for levels 9 to 1 in sector E-9 with the various security teams he knew would respond to his commands.<br/><br/>Eduian exited the lifts on level 1 of sector D-3. The residential sector that housed any Civilians who were on permanent residence. The problem here were the children who were in their chambers usually online doing their schooling. Eduian grabbed the first guard captain he saw and ordered the man to sweep each apartment. Making sure to get any of the older children to lead the younger ones. This was the danger zone. That was why he was here personally. To oversee this part of the evacuation. He looked down at his PD and noted the time. 0840. They didn’t have long now till the attack began.<br/><br/>“I need an update from outside,” Eduian said into the open channel. Hopping that someone in the market district would pick up his call and respond with an update on the chaos he knew was out there. He closed his eyes as he listened to the noises around him. So few adults where here. He opened his eyes and looked around as the corridor began to fill with children from 17 to infants being held by older children. This was the only thing that terrified Eduian. Getting them out of harms way. Damnation. If this base was hit now they would be trapped down here. Eduian hated this above everything else. The Tearsia was at war with the Coalition, but they were also a peaceful organization who worked with the populace of planets to better their lives unlike the Coalition which just gave down laws and let the governments and fat bureaucrats do what they will so long as they did what the Coalition wanted. The few adults down here were much more organized then those he’d seen above. This was about the only good sign he’d seen.