Re: Act 7: Blackout
"Taking the recruits with us, yes," Cor answers. "Taking them to the Talon Nest? I would suggest not. Not yet. That could endanger both them and ourselves - the more people know its location, the more that can be forcibly convinced to disclose it." She taps a few buttons and says something in her natural Umbaran. Switching back to Basic, she continues. "I suggest we confirm a rendezvous location - a planet or moon a system or so away from the Nest, perhaps - and have them assist us in datasearches and maintaining security until Talon Nest can be evacuated. The team can then assemble at that rendezvous location and the searching can commence in earnest.
"There is a problem here, however. We cannot simply evacuate the Nest. Perhaps we can work out rapidly what we should take and what we should leave behind. Perhaps we have enough manpower to manage this quickly. Perhaps we even, thanks to some recent purchases, have enough space to store most of it - but this matter is not simple and it requires thought." She taps a keyboard a few times.
"If we abandon the Nest we will need somewhere else to dry-dock our ships for repairs and refits. We can hire a shipyard, perhaps, but for how long? Our funds will soon dry up if we do that. The more costs we heap upon ourselves the more mundane work we will need to do to fund it - and, therefore, the longer the search will take. Another option is to locate a similar base, perhaps one already in use by pirates, head in, terminate the tenants and take over. These are possibilities but they need to be decided upon before we commit ourselves to the hunt."