Displaced: the grey eyes of the force

Three days had passed since the break down and I’m feeling better now lily understood that everything had happened had caught up to me and that it took a heavy toll on my emotions. I fell asleep clinging to her that night she understood and had royal and the others help her get me to my bed where she stayed that night. Made for one shocker the next morning but I was grateful to her, since then she and royal have both been by my side everywhere I go. It almost feels like having my parents back.

Those three days followed a semi repetitive schedule of me waking up and eating then training for four hours one my current set of force powers followed by a hour of meditation then an hour and a half of studying a new force power before half an hour of light training in it. Then I’d head onto another section of the ship, often one I’d been to or exploring a new section, while eating a lunch I’d packed beforehand. Afterwards I’d spend the rest of the day till supper at meetings with the various heads of departments, I’m calling them that because it’s easier, determining what we might find at our destination, mostly speculation oh how they will respond, followed by reports on progressions on the various projects each has going on mostly with Factory and Titan. Afterward we would talk about improvements that could be done to each area and how to go about doing so.

Which places me now, on day four, in my current position mediating between the head of cloning, who I learned only called himself dr. Hollow, and the head of agriculture a rather built specimen called brick, the two were needing help with a dispute over resources, mainly food and clone labor.

“...I’m only explaining this one more time we can’t produce more food if we don’t have the necessary supplies, namely materials and clones to work it. Doctor we need more clones down in agriculture so we can feed everyone on board I’d try the droids but all they are currently producing are engineers and combat and won’t stop to give us that.” Brick said as he looked to the clone bay head.

“I’m sorry brick any and all current clones are are either assigned already or are not finished with the training modules I have a batch who should be ready by the time we get to our destination. Until then we can’t and as it is we would need liquid food packs to produce any more clones.” Hollow said taking the glass frames off his muzzle.

“And I can’t give you any till I get some new hands for agriculture we’re stretched as is.” Brick said slamming his hand down.

“Brick calm down, now doctor is there any way to streamline the learning process for the new batches, Like on the job training or apprenticeships? Something that can give Brick some help till I talk to droid production?” I asked looking his direction.

“...well yes but they won’t be at their peak skills….ok fine I’ll send them down but they will need to come back so they can finalize their holo training as soon as possible.” The doctor said relenting.

“Ok brick expect them soon as for this meeting it’s finished I’ll be heading to engineering to speak with them about the agri droids, now good day to the both of you, I’ll alert you as soon as possible.” I said as I stood up, the other two hopping up as well to salute.

Leaving the area we headed to the lifts and set our destination for engineering. As soon as the doors close I sighed which prompted my two shadows to perk up.

“ you seem annoyed sir, was it over those two fighting?” Royal asked as lily robbed my back.

“Yeah you'd think that would have been their first idea but… anyway let get to the foundry I’m ready to be done with this.” I said as the lift doors opened.

Upon walking in I found sarge and a droid discussing something on a screen that looked like a mandalorian basilisk. Which they powered down upon seeing me. Looking around I saw several different battle droids magnaguards, commando, and destroyer droids in production. Noting one section was empty I spoke.

“Hello sarge how are things going down here you seem to be gearing up for a fight?” I said gesturing to all the combat droids.

“Yes we have been since the order was put in for a army to be prepared immediately, Although. I do question the need right now sir.”He said as the droid next to him nodded.

“I didn’t designate and army sarge who gave the order I’m sure we have plenty.” I said my eyebrows furrowed.

“Well I’d say so with almost a million droids sir.” He said showing me the numbers.

“That many ok I’m issuing a new order after we hit a million stop the production of battle droids and focus on droids to help with production agriculture need farming droids as soon as possible.” I said as sarge sent the order out.

“Yes sir as soon as this last batch is done we will focus on getting droids to work in the other sectors and getting the brains done for the vulture droids fighters been asking for.” Sarge said as the droid next to him took off down the line and a shift was heard shortly after.

“Good I’ll let the others know here shortly I’m still curious on who ordered that many it as bad as when I went to cloning and asked them why I saw so many being trained for combat. I’m going to have to look into this.” I said bringing up my comms link. “Desmond look through the ships systems and see who ordered so many clone soldiers and battle droids.”

Much to my surprise desmond quickly responded. “Sir I have the answer to that inquiry it was me we had workers and crew but didn’t have many security and combat forces. I took the liberty of ordering up a sufficient force for patrolling and anti boarding.” He said.

“Desmond you did…. next time at least tell me I’m sure we have plenty now I’m redirecting the foundry to production as your orders are pushing stored food and the agriculture department too much.” I said as I got onto the lift again.

“Yes sir they were meant to after the specific number sir.with that cleared up any other inquiries sir.” Desmond said as me and my two companions rode the lift up to my next area of choice, cloning.

“ no not for now.” I said and following Desmond’s acknowledgment I closed the link.

“Sir if you don’t mind what are we heading to the cloning labs for?” Lily asked looking nervous for some reason.

“Well I’m thinking of using one of the unused rooms as a massage room and having a team of clones trained to help me relax.” I said watching her face slightly loose it’s worried look.

“Ok sir sorry if I seemed nosy I was just curious.” She said smoothing out a ruffle in her dress.

Curious I used my mental abilities to find what is bothering her and to my surprise she thought I was replacing her, trying to not immediately correct her, I shook my head and stepped out as the lift opened.

Upon entering I found the place was in a bit of chaos. Cloned and med droids running around checking several different screen panels and typing away on data slates. Dr hollow was up on a control platform shouting orders, which upon seeing us was focused on getting down to our level to speak. When he finally got to us he looked ragged and was panting, when he got his breath he started talking.

“Apologies sir we’re having a bit of trouble with an technical issue.” He said watching one of the panels start glitching before sparking and going down.

“A bit it’s seems like all hell is going down, what’s happened? what went wrong?” I asked using my force lift to quickly holding a panel rack in place as it dislodges from place.

“Well that’s it I don’t know a few engineers are trying to find out but every time they try to get into the databanks the door starts to go haywire. One has already been brained by it, the other nearly got crushed by a power transformer that distributes power to the cloning tanks, luckily the ship has every section redundant power distribution arrays.” The doctor said as another freak out happened and a clone technician gets launched from an exploding terminal.

“Ok that’s it where is the databanks room at I’ll hold the door open.” I said getting annoyed.

When we go to it we found the second engineer trying her best to get the door to cooperate, by the looks of the door panel it wasn’t going well. Upon our approach she spoke out.

“Sir apologies I’m trying my best but the system isn’t working it almost like this sector has been hit with a virus. But I’ve searched for anything remotely close to one on the terminal and I’ve found nothing!” She shouted kicking the frame of the door.

“If we can’t find it on any of the terminals out here then it’s got to be in there.” I said pointing past the rapidly opening and closing door. “I’ll hold it open you need to get in there and find out what it is before it damages this section further.”

Using the force I wrenched the door back up in its frame, sparks flying as its motors tried in vain to push it back down. The technician quickly got in and was rushing through the data bank when she found the offending databank slot and removed it. Upon its removal the door stopped fighting and all of the haywire equipment died down letting everyone in the room to access the readings. Walking out the technician showed the now stilled data rack that caused the issue. Sighing I relinquished my hold on the door as it gently slid back down.

Having my fill of problems I turned nodded to the doctor and walked to the lift, royal and lily right on my heels upon the lift door closing I slumped down while my companions seeing my state directed the lift to my sanctuary and patted me on the back. The rest of that day and the next was spent recovering from the fatigue.