As you all leave the ship you are met with a pretty nice day on Demawand. The temperature is about 20°C/68°F with a soft wind blowing from the East and gently pushing some puffy white clouds before it. Those who still pay attention to local smalls after visiting perhaps dozens of different planets notice a smell in the air not unlike vanilla, a little sweet, but probably something one can get used to in no time at all.<br/><br/>As you make your way off the spaceport and towards the town you pass a public computer terminal at the base of the control tower. It's the kind of computer you find in many spaceports, a combination of map, business directory and billboard. Touchscreen displays like that are a common sight around spaceports on more civilized planets so you have no trouble following the instructions displayed on screen to find the business of your contact, listed as Konnar Industries in the directory. If that weren't enough, your contact, Bron Konnar, has also been kind enough to leave a message on the billboard function of the computer for the crew delivering his cargo: "Swing by my workplace to arrange delivery details. If I'm not there, someone can tell you where to find me."<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">The billboard also lists a few job offers for transport pilots, those being:</div><div class="spoiler_body">100t of foodstuffs to be delivered to the Ord Belmor system within three days. <br/>25t of  metal that needs to be at Almaraz within 4 days. <br/>70t of grain to be delivered at Gwenevar within 4 days.<br/>The offered fees and contract clauses look fairly standard. Nothing to get very rich from, but the Magpie could make each of those deliveries, even if you stay on Demawand for a day or two.</div></div><br/><br/>As you go into town you notice a few things about Tava City: The east of the city, closest to the spaceport seems to consist mostly of industrial and commercial areas – warehouses, small factories, and the like.<br/>Traffic in this part of town is fairly light. What vehicles you see are an even mix of landspeeders and wheeled vehicles.<br/>Most people are human, with a few aliens around. You see a Cerean with the typical elongated head, a pair of Duros with their bald, green heads and big red eyes, and a few hammerheaded Ithorians.<br/>Streets are reasonably clean and there are actually some planters and trees lining the main street that cuts through the city from East to West. Some of those plants look like they could do with a bit of watering, but, all in all, things look to be in reasonable repair. Sure, some of the buildings could do with a new coat of paint or some other beautification or maintenance, but that's not unexpected, given that you are in an industrial area. Businesses being what they are, many of them tend to use their money for more substantial investments, unless presenting a pretty face to the world is important to them. That's something that doesn't seem to change all that much, whatever world you are on.<br/><br/>Konnar Industries is about 2 kilometers from the spaceport, a bit closer as the bird flies but still within easy walking distance if you follow the main streets. It's easy enough to find, thanks to a huge sign proclaiming the name, fixed to a chain link fence surrounding a fairly large plot.<br/><br/>The business looks like a cross between a scrap yard and a repair shop, apparently dealing mostly with larger vehicles. Some of the vehicles gathering rust in one corner of the yard are the size of tanks, as are the two huge landspeeders parked near a hangar-like building where half a dozen small, humanoid droids with dish-shaped heads are busy dismantling the chassis of one of those vehicles. An R4-series astromechdroid, easily recognized by its cone-shaped head, is dividing its time between applying a laser welder to what might be part of a propulsion system and firing of a series of angry beeps and bleeps at the smaller droids now and then.<br/><br/>Entrance to the lot is through a wide gate that is currently rolled aside on tracks paralleling the chain link fence. There's no human in sight, but there is also some noise from the huge building, like someone bashing away on a piece of metal.<br/><br/><hr/>OOC:<br/><br/>1 - Those trained in Mechanics or with some knowledge of technology (that being Dari and Anya) should have no trouble recognizing the vehicles as farming equipment.<br/><br/>2 - If I haven't missed anything, Anya and Hearts are the ones who understand Binary. What the R4 is saying boils down to a pretty angry "pay attention you lot. Don't mess this up like the last time. You do remember the last time you were trusted with anything? You better remember, because I have a plasma torch. You do remember the plasma torch?" - The replies from the small worker droids boil down to a mix of simpering and groveling sounds that can't really be translated.