It was a sunny morning on the twin planets Rova and Varo, in the Kuvaros Galaxy.<br/>Stationed neither too near nor too far to the usual airship harbors, was a small Forest, resembling an Oasis.<br/>The trees in this Oasis, however, were much more simlar to pine and leaf trees than palms as you would see in the usual Desert Oasis. They also were not fruit trees, mostly giants resembling a large speck of rainforest, in between the steppe and sands.<br/>This lush speck of green utopia had a stark contrast to the overall depleted and dusty planet. Only a few of those specks were available, making up the larger cities and more expensive living environments.<br/>As for smaller towns, villages and the likes, they had to make do with the sandy and dusty settlements, closer to water or food sources below the earth.<br/>This planet consisted more of a deserted place and was not densely populated. The reason it was not completely deserted was the source of rare metals, as well as some interesting species not found anywhere. Its twin planet, Varo, was even less inhabited, because of the low temperatures and a big ice crust forming. It was almost completely uninhabitable.<br/>During the first Stellary war in the Galaxy, both those planets technical civilization had been wiped off the planet cleanly by invasors from Cavros. Having been a colony of Cavros since then, Rova only gained freedom in the last eight years.<br/>Exploited and largely depleted, the population and the planets were still only slowly on their way to a better future. Most of the populace consisted of scavengers, some hunters and some plantage or forest owners, who presided like little oligarchs over their respective area, trying to gain as much money as possible from 'renting' the limited forest and plains patches to the citizens. However, even those citizens had it better than the rural desert tribes, living in the barely possible spots in the desert. Poverty in abundance, even though<br/>the people had a large variety of metals and alloys as ressources, it would not bring them much when they were starving. Only a few rare species could be self sufficient and survive by eating the bitter and for humans inedible tree leaves, or desert plants as well as some strange species that could devour alloy parts, then fall into a slumber to digest them...<br/><br/>If seen from afar, the city of Avros was the largest speck of green on this planet.<br/>It also had the most amount and diversity in populace, as well as being the closest to the only Airship Harbor.<br/>Most of the aliens here, as well as some of the human race, still lived not using technologies, trying to not harm their natural habitat as much as possible.<br/>The Sun, that was the merciless enemy in the desert, was instead welcomed greatly by the plants in this speck, as they greedily raised their leaves and branches to get the most of it, spending shade to the inhabitants.<br/>Most of the houses were integrated into Trees, or fleshed out underground caves if the shade was not available - however not out of wood, which was a rare ressource that only the rich could enjoy, but out of polymer plastic , metals or alloys - which were strangely abundant here.<br/><br/>Most of Airships landing on Rova were in for a surprise -  not hoping for an abundant harvest of metals to repair, just landing here out of necessity, they soon found themselves in a mekka of different alloys which they could trade for simple ressources as food and water.<br/><br/>In the vicinity of both Avros and Avros Airship Harbor, just between the shadow of the cool forest Trees and the sunny open space, was a big building.<br/>Contrary to most other buildings, it did not strive to be under or on a tree, or next to a shadowy patch, nor being a cave underground.<br/>Instead, it reminded of a flat, three storey building, and, interestingly was shaped like a big airship, that was half burrowed into<br/>the sandy landscape. The top of this 'airship' was spiked with strange, glittering squares, all directed towards the sunlight, rivalling the trees next to it in greedily absorbing the light.<br/>There was a large door on one side, and a staircase leading outside of the second floor, into the shade of the city of Avros.<br/>Above the doorframe was a big Signboard.<br/>In runic norse signs, it read "MEMORIES - CHILDREN OF THE STARS"<br/>Below that, in the local language, as well as a few interstellar ones, there was "SCRAP AND REPAIR SHOP"  written.<br/>On the side, downstairs at the bottom of the ladder, there were the current prices of buying and selling parts, as well as prices for<br/>repair and maintenance of airships. It was like a Trade market board for different parts and repair features.<br/><br/>Most of the Inhabitants did not know what was inside this Building, that resembled a true spaceship, however, the Spaceship Captains seemed to have heard of this Shop in recent years, and visited it often.<br/>As for the Natives of Rova, There was a trade plaza infront of it, with different stalls buying scraps and selling things from powercells to some useful household appliances.<br/>This mostly rural world faced a slow but steady change in the recent years, with technical progression being one of them.<br/><br/>Inside, in a private room, which still reminded of a spaceship cabin, there were a few pictures. A much larger Airship that resembled the building's in form, as well as eight people of different forms and ethnicities. A small, scrawny frame of a girl in the middle, holding something that reminded people of a small tin can, blinking wildly. Their smiles.<br/>Many frames after that followed their adventures.<br/><br/>The last frame, however, only showed the girl, now a woman, grown up and a big metal frame robot, protecting her back.<br/>It was dated half a year ago with the title 'Varo Exploration'<br/><div style="margin:20px; margin-top:5px"><div class="quotetitle"><input class="button2 btnlite" onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = '';      this.innerText = ''; this.value = 'Hide'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerText = ''; this.value = 'Show'; }" style="text-align:center;width:100px;margin:0px;padding:0px;" type="button" value="Show"/></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;"><a class="postlink" href="https://pre00.deviantart.net/4bd3/th/pre/i/2016/032/7/a/comrades_by_guweiz-d9q4iba.jpg">https://pre00.deviantart.net/4bd3/th/pre/i/2016/032/7/a/comrades_by_guweiz-d9q4iba.jpg</a></div></div></div><br/>It showed a girl named Isa Lykke and her robot.<br/><br/>Right now it was still too early in the Morning, but the door of the Airship House was already opened, and a woman exited slowly.<br/>It was naturally, Isa Lykke, the owner of this house and shop.<br/>Behind her, a tall, metallic frame emerged, following her motions, like a big, protective wall of alloy and metal.<br/>Her robot 'Tinky', now was more of a toy, resting in her Bedroom, while "Tin-Tin" was the improved version, following her around, as he helped her with the daily tasks.<br/>Now, a woman and a robot, slowly started a strange morning excercise, reminding people of military whilst also being not really the usual military exercise.<br/><br/>After their morning routine, and a breakfast, Isa put on her hearing device, as her assistants and sale helpers from the locals now appeared, greeting her, and starting another workday.<br/>Opening shops and starting working on different parts, everyone got busy.<br/>Isa still loved listening to those vibrations, it always calmed her somewhat. Now she had  a device that aided her hearing, more out of necessity to interact with the locals, as it had inbuilt translator for many languages of the stellar system.<br/>This night was somewhat strange, as she had not been able to fall asleep easily, resorting to her old method, entering her wardrobe, and making Tin-tin guard her sleep, while she gained a few precious hours to rest before morning.<br/><br/>The years had made her even more sensitive to bad omens, as well as her old scars from her travels and accidents still hurt and itched sometimes, even though they were mostly recovered, thanks to the medicine and good food she had received in the last ten years.<br/><br/>Sighing, Isa prepared to work on her current largest Project - plans for automatic transport wagons and air rails between the trees in Avros, as her communicator watch vibrated slightly.<br/><br/>It was Edan. The message was short but sounded strange. "Ella has dug out a metallic monster like your Tintin! It looks and talks like a human!"<br/>Isa sighed. Since she picked up the scavenger siblings with her Sand-traveller to save them from a desert storm, Ella had been going crazy for Isa's tech stuff, endangering herself and her brother even more than her recklessness previously did. While Edan was too wary of anything related to technical stuff- because of obvious reasons.<br/><span style="font-style: italic">~He might be exaggerating, though. Ella had always had her own reasons and goals, for as short as I know her.~</span>Isa thought, taking a look at her Tintin. It did not react, stoically waiting for her to give commands. "Metallic Monster" -Edan was the one that started his nickname. Tintins large form was able to carry large things as well as work on intricate mechanisms, his circuits however, were nothing specially evolved from his small form, where he was only able to change colors and follow her around as a warning bell for<br/>approaching strangers or crew members, able to complete simple, predetermined tasks, like small repairs.<br/>Tintin was basically something only she could program and use - at least on this planet.<br/><br/>It would not be strange to find scrap parts that looked like him, but it would be alarming if they had the intelligence of a human.<br/><br/>It seemed like somebody<span style="font-style: italic">wanted</span>to leave Rova and Varo in rustic technologies. She was not allowed to take much, as she set up shop here, also being thoroughly checked before entering these planets to help technically rebuild them for the new government.<br/>In the last year, the supervision had become stricter as well, so she thought of quitting and migrating a few times, but ultimately decided against it.<br/><br/>"Where are you two?" she typed into the communicator, after pondering for a while.<br/>She made her way to her Sand-traveller. It was a sledge-like vehicle with lighter alloys, but a strong motor, able to travel well on sandy and snowy grounds.<br/>It also had wheels, as well as moving chains, but she had no need to use them in this terrain. It was forbidden to enter forest cities with any kinds of vehicles anyway.<br/>Only Tintin was an exception, personally decreed by the local Mayor. - That title was an euphemism. It was more like the local Tyrant, now being a dog to the government while trying to gain the most profits.<br/>He did all he could to get her and her shop to stay, or even better, to have a share in it.<br/>It was good that Isa did not trust his words easily, or she might have been sold already, counting that guy's money.<br/><br/>Just as she started up the vehicle, another panicked voice message from Edan reached her. "Ella really wants to take it along...Its all because of you! You have to stop it .. ITS SO SCARY!!!"<br/>Sighing again, as Edan definitely misused these communication pods to vent his fear and frustration, instead  of telling her where they were... she turned on the receiver, that picked up a general direction of the other device.<br/><br/>Next time, she definitely would think twice before giving the siblings any of her gadgets.<br/>Edan was not cut out for being a scavenger - you needed to be courageous and flexible.<br/>While Ella was too greedy - you needed to know what you could eat, or what food could get stuck in your throat and kill you.<br/>According to Edan, Ella had only changed for the worse since they met Isa - being envious of what she had built up and all the technical things she had. Isa could not deny anything of this, because she only was acquainted to them recently.<br/>She did not understand that envy, because what Ella saw was the benefits, and not the years and years of hard work she had put into it.<br/>Still, Isa intended to be responsible in at least some way for Ellas obsessions if she could.<br/>However, it may be a good time to put a stop to these antics. If not, she might not be there to save them another time when they uncovered more danger. Recently they seemed to expect her to help them out, just because she did that before.<br/><br/>Tin-tin's lonely form stood in place, waiting for Isa's return, as the sand-traveller took off towards her destination, only leaving a cloud of dust behind.