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    after the embarrassment of the first weekly report, and people managed to hold back their teasing, the following Day Nick was settling to his desk in his tent, writing a day 7 entry. Pretty much explaining he'd been slightly embarrassed the day before, then noted a few details that he deemed important about the previous day. afterwards he sighed and thought for a moment. Maybe Sif wasn't that good a fit anyway. She didn't seem overly interested... but neither was she overly hostile either. she just... didn't seem to really care. He stared at the wall as he thought for a moment, here he was, 35 years of age, and the closer he got to 40, the more he worried he wouldn't find someone who would actually stick. He lightly clasped the pendant around his neck that was normally under his uniform, a locket in the shape of a heart, inside the locket was a photograph of a pretty young woman, and on the same chain as the locket was his and her engagement rings. He allowed himself a moment of sorrow while holding the locket to his chest where his heart was.
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    Standing at the base of the boarding ramp, Tobias looked over the growing colony. He liked this spot because it was relatively high up compared to the surrounding terrain and gave a commanding view of the settlement. From here, he could see from the generators to the watchtowers. Dusk was falling and the guard were, or should be, on high alert. There had been no indication so far that there were intelligent lifeforms besides humans on this planet, but he wasn't taking any chances of some malevolent being taking advantage of the changing light levels, which played havoc with sight. Like him, the sentries should be wearing their light filter visors and keeping an eye on motion trackers. Until it could be assured that this world was safe, they had to treat it as if it was enemy territory. And they were the invaders.

    Turning, he made to walk up the entry ramp into the ship when he noticed something out of the corner of his eye that irked him to no end. While points might be well awarded to embracing the native culture and the spirit of camping, Tobias found it unseemly for the commander to be quartering in a tent when there was enough permanent lodging, be it on the ship or in pre-fab structures, for everyone. At least the man had the sense to put it near the colony ship, but that also made it seem even more nonsensical. He had, to Tobias' personal experience, even brought a desk into the blasted thing, as if he truly meant to make it the center of command and control: fortunately he had not yet. Shaking his head, Tobias glanced back out at the colony and spotted two engineers making a break for their quarters after curfew. Making note of their faces, he logged to give them a reprimand in the morning. If he could find time for it.
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    Sie slept in as her sister rose earlier and got dressed again. It wasn't unusual for her, in fact during the voyage when there wasn't much for her to do she got restless, but now that there was so much work to be done she seemed perfectly fine getting up early and tending to it. Besides most of the time the mornings were quite with little to no one to deal with. She smoothed Sie's hear back as she looked into her sleeping face before smiling and placing a soft kiss on her sister forehead before leaving and heading out of the ship.

    When she reached the ramp she paused taking in a deep breath of that fresh air before she headed down to go check on the tools and make sure everything was in place before she started on her next task. The cool air was the best time to work, but she knew as well as anyone who knew her well, she'd be working through the worst of the day as well. First was making sure they had proper tools for mining, she'd be documenting what they still had left and if anything was out of place for a while..

    Sie groaned in her sleep and burred her face into her pillow further not ready to get up yet.

    Meanwhile some miles away from the settlement a small caravan of three semi armored trucks in a line. They had run into some of the scouts and gotten directions to the settlement and where heading that way now. They had already mapped one other settlement besides their own and gathered some information for the other settlements.

    If Jaz had anything to say about it, and she did, this place was just as beautiful as earth. Strange and wild. So far it only appeared to be them here which kind of surprised her but she tried not to worry about it to much. The ride was a bit of a bumpy but one could only complain so much before it got old. Besides if her information right they should get to rest at the next settlement for a night or two before heading out again.

    She picked up her radio. "Hey you two, keep your eyes open there's a heard of beasts coming up to our right." She said getting confirmation back that they heard her before she continued going, glancing at her passenger who was peering out the window keeping an eye on the heard of animals they were coming up on. "We should be getting close then." Jaz said with a smile before turning her attention back to the none-existent road.
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    About this time Nick had just shaved his face so it was baby smooth again. He had a slight stubble the last day or two, so he figured shaving it would make him slightly more presentable. He just finished cleaning his face of the shaving cream residue when a soldier came up to him and snapped a salute, indicating something he needed to hear had happened. "What is it, soldier?" He said, setting the towel down. "Sir, a scout just radio'd in, a small convoy of semi-armored trucks is on it's way from one of the other settlements." Nick nodded "Very well, let's go greet them." he said, heading out towards the border of the settlement the convoy most likely would be entering from.
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    From his vantage in the ship's bridge, Tobias could make out the faint cloud of dust kicked up by the approaching convoy. He had been roused when the first sensor pings went off and now thanked his earlier impulse to have the nodes hidden where they were deployed. So far there had not been any kind of radio contact with the approaching group of vehicles even though both were in clear line of sight with each other: Communications reported that there was nothing on the channels and Tobias ordered the colony's forces to switch to encryptions. Though he could not hear it, he knew that below in the colony the Public Broadcasting system was emitting a low-frequency drone, sending the colonists not part of the security force indoors; there was no sense for them to be out during a possible encounter. Once again he regretted not having the force barriers up. As it was, the newcomers could just ram their vehicles into the prefabs or, worse, the guard towers.
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    Sie blinked open her eyes with a frown at the low droning sound. Moaning as she rolled over before sitting up and rubbing her eyes. What was that sound? She yawned and stretched before she started getting dressed.

    Sif set up when she heard the siren going on before watching some of the others start heading in. "Ah whatever." She wasn't personally worried she'd just keep working if she was sure Sie hadn't gotten up by now and wasn't wandering around. She set things down where she could easily get back to it before she went hunting for her sister, first to check their rooms.

    "There it is." Jaz pointed over the steering wheel as they could make out the details of the ship now. "Hey you two." She called over the radio. "Reduce your speed, we want to come in nice. No need to startle people, or run into things." there was a grumbled sorry as a reply making Jaz smile slightly. As they got closer Jaz looked to her companion. "Take the wheel. I need to be out there to greet whoevers waiting for us." She said letting Jacky take the wheel Jaz slipped from her seat allowing the other women to take her place. with that she moved to the passenger seat and opened the door, climbing out onto the step and holding onto the handle just beside the door.

    They rolled in slowly, making sure to steer into a relativity empty place. Before the wheels had even really stopped moving Jaz dropped down. taking the momentum to bring her over closer to the Colonel. As all three trucks stopped, neither the passenger or the drivers moved out yet and wouldn't till Jaz gave them the sign it was okay. "Greetings from Colony 8." She said giving a loss salute. "Your the colonel of this settlement I presume?"
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    Nick blinked, when these semi armored trucks rolled in, he half expected a typical trucker guy to come out. But was surprised when a pretty girl greeted him instead. He kept a calm exterior, however happy he was to see another young woman. there were only a small handful of women here and fewer were very attractive. "Yes, I'm the overseer... Nick Hellsing." he said with a respectful bow before standing straight again. "If you don't mind I'm sure the lieutenant, as stiff and paranoid as he is, will want to make sure everything's in order before we let you in, just a standard procedure of course." He said, trying to seem as friendly as he could while carefully explaining that most other colonies should probably have done the same. "Oh, this is for a trade route of sorts, if my thinking is correct, which admittedly, it's not always correct... which means." he took what appeared to be a camera out of his pocket "If you don't mind, I'd like to snap a photo of us being potential partners.... trade partners, that is." he quickly caught himself, hopefully as little damage as possible dealt to his pride. should she agree, he'd snap a photo of the two of them, with big grins; or if she declined he'd put the camera away while muttering that he totally understood not everybody enjoyed their pictures taken.
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    "There are cameras aplenty for the occasion." said Tobias. He was at OPs, but his voice was carried by the audio catcher through to the weapon platform near the trucks. It slid over to the commander and his new, bestest friend. Appearing as a man from the upper hips up, its legs were replaced by a hover platform, its forearms replaced by a photon launcher on one side and a straight blade on the other, wreathed in crackling lightning. More such platforms hovered around the still convoy, bolstering the pitiful ranks of actual breathing guards. It was a good thing that he had requested security units instead of relying the engineers to get the matter fabricators online. Now if he could only convince the commander not to voice the shutdown codes, they could avoid a potential loss of the colony...
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    Jaz smiled. Well Colonel, I'm Jasmin Cooper, Captain of this little Caravan." She chuckled. "Of coarse, I understand." She said before looking back and waving for the others to open up their trucks and come on out. As they did that she turned back to Nick. "Sort of." he responded. "We are supposed scout out the other settlements and make sure they are all accounted fore. Then make out the quickest routs to each one." She cocked her head to the side, her smile never wavering as Nick pulled out a Camera. she was about to agree, simply because of how adorably awkward the man seemed in trying to cover up exactly what he was doing.

    However Tobis made his appearance then, along with armed guards which made Jaz frown a little bit. Not the welcome she was expecting... This hadn't happened in the last colony so this was a bit... "Don't you think this is a little over kill?" she asked looking to Tobis. "Sir?" she said gesturing to her crew, which was now out standing next to their rides looking nervous at this display. "There are 6 of us and a dozen of you, even if we are armed, which we are, we don't pose enough of a threat to you for this show of intimidation." she said gesturing to Tobis.


    Meanwhile Sif had checked back on their room only to see that Sie was no longer there, clearly she'd gotten up and gotten dressed, the next place to look was where there was food.. Sighing sif moved off.

    Sie had already grabbed a small ration bar, making a face but otherwise making no complaint as she moved down the halls. If she remembered correctly the bridge was down this way, and if she had to guess Tobis was there to. Since there was no real Job for her to do, accept run errands once and a while, she was going to make it her Job to mess with that man till he loosened up! Should make things interesting. Though she knew Sif would disprove, as would Tobis.

    Fortunately no one was really in the halls right now, and getting past the few people who were wasn't a problem now was just getting past bridge security. Sie's tinkering skills was something you could shake a stick out for sure, she could usually dissemble something and then put it back together pretty well. Fortunately she wouldn't have to really do anything She just had to bypass a few codes, and that was easy once you got past the main panel. Back at home she never got a very close look at things like this so this always fascinated her, she couldn't tell you how many times she'd taken apart and resembled the panel to her room. Everything was so interact and perfect one could only imagine all the things they could do if they just tried.

    When she finely got the door open she moved inside and looked around the Bridge. normally they didn't like her up here, but they were taking everything apart, slowly, anyways. As she thought. Tobis had taken up a place he could look outside over the whoooooole settlement. She waltzed up to his sided and looked out. "Whoa. It looks so much bigger from up here!"
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    Nick glared in the direction of where Tobi likely was, he assumed in the bridge. He spoke, well kind of yelled, directly into the microphone which surely would rattle a few of Tobi's brain cells "Do I have your attention, numbskull?" then he spoke more calmly and said "Call them off, as the lady says, they mean us no harm, or do I need to have your... paranoia, re-evaluated as a possible threat to our species' survival?" then he crossed his arms, looking kind of annoyed, right into the camera mounted on a unit that fed into a monitor on the bridge, surely Tobi would get the hint.
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