<div class="floatleft">(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/71956915/RPGnet/hqdefault.jpg)</div><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=243481.msg12056922#msg12056922">Quote from: Captain Whitebread on 06-02-2016, 16:13:45</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><br/>"So you suggested when you said you'd been there all your life,"  Shaa Raa replied.  "Unenlisted, ace pilot? You likely grew up in a hangar and snuck some simulator time in when you weren't fetching tools and components or doing minor repairs that the techs didn't have time to do.  By the time anybody found out what you were up to, you were a decent tech and better pilot than the majority of the flight school graduates.  When push comes to shove, the military is notorious for scraping the bottom of the barrel and probably threw you in a fighter for the first time during a last ditch, do or die defense of something vital.  Seeing that you were able to survive, they probably used you any time they were short on pilots, if the senior officers were looking the other way and they figured the missions weren't too dangerous.  They probably gave you a decommissioned ship out of a sense of guilt over using you so unmercifully, although you didn't see it that way.  It allowed them to get rid of an asset that was no longer of any value and gave you something to do as you brought it back up to proper space-worthy condition.  Are you sure you want to dig Mina?  You dig, I dig."<br/><br/>He wasn't meaning to be malicious in his assessment.  She was obviously a navy brat.  A few questions and her reaction to them would tell him more.  She could have been orphaned and adopted by the techs, the pilots or the ship crew.  She could have been the child of military parents.  To get where she was there were few paths and even fewer starting points.  In any case she seemed like an interesting person, even if her assessment of the group was a little off compared to his.  She was also another female.  It looked like he was going to be surrounded by them.  It was a pity that the majority would likely be adverse to him making a profit off of their 'assets'.  <em>Where are the Twi'leks when you need them?</em><br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Mina crossed her arms under her bust and met Shaa's eyes.  Or tried to, that mask makes it tricky.  "You've got the gist of it, but not a lot of the details" she says lightly.  "I could tell you more over a drink sometime, maybe."  Then her eyes narrow as her temper rises about the "bottom of the barrel" remark.  "I was with the GA fleet. We were the only ones standing up to the Sith for years.  The Empire rolled over for them, what was left of the Jedi hid away, the Chiss and the Hapans were nowhere to be seen.  We threw everything we could at the Sith all the time because no one else was doing anything."<br/><br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=243481.msg12057236#msg12057236">Quote from: AndyZ on 06-02-2016, 18:53:12</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><br/>Her eyes also glanced to Mina.  "I have some experience in mechanical repairs, and if you want, you can show me a bit around your ship to make sure I can fix things up during a firefight."  A gentle smile finally pursed her lips.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>"Great!" Mina replied, the heat of her previous remarks dissipated almost instantly after she said them.  "The Spitfire handles best with three crew... Pilot, engineer... who's a good gunner?"  She looks around to the whole group.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=243481.msg12059015#msg12059015">Quote from: Florence on 07-02-2016, 07:08:23</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><br/>She waited until the others present had all introduced themselves, before finally speaking up. "I'm Thali. I specialize in tasks requiring stealth, particularly assassination," she said, speaking of clandestine murder as casually as one would of the weather, before promptly returning to silence. She'd stated her tactical role to the group, and had little intention of sharing more.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>That drew a little whistle from Mina.  "Cold one..." she remarked.<br/><br/>Asuna's comments about bridge officers did resonate, though the bit about spreading her legs brought a hint of color to her cheeks.  "Officers are in the military's files" she says after a moment.  "The military LOVES files and data trails.  A slicer or someone who wheedles a password out of a clerk can learn a lot.  Not so much with people who aren't in the system."