Kal listened to Tess, looking at her intently as she spoke, and then giving a kind of nod and half-shrug. "Okay, sure. Sounds good to me." He wasn't sure if lightening the mood was the right call but his mouth kept talking before his brain could stop it. "I mean, we just met but we already skipped ahead and kissed, might as well go on a dinner date now."

He followed after her.

There was a slight giggle and a smile from Tess. "My, aren't you forward? I hate to say that it's a matter of principle to never mix work with pleasure." She made a quick pivot with her  head to check for anyone eavesdroppers.

"I like the idea though. Maybe when we aren't fighting for our lives or planning how we single handedly save the New Republic, I'll take you up on that offer..."

Kal looked at Tess in a bit of surprised shock. HIM forward?? Never mix work with pleasure?? But she had just walked up to him and kissed him out of the blue! He shook his head, very confused. "Uh, okay. We'll put that aside for now."

He stepped closer to her and lowered his voice. "So I don't think Correllia is a good starting place. Seems too big. I'd say Hypo Station. Or possible the CMC. What do you think?" He looked down. "Though I would like to take this opportunity to point out that I'm a pilot, not a spy."

"Neither am I, but we have our orders. We're too late now..." Tess said as she entered the Ward Room, taking her pick of the late night provisions. "Hypo Station is going to be the hardest to find, but probably the most likely to have success should we find them. I'm not an engineer either, but I doubt the CMC would be able to just spring together a new system out of the blue from the spare parts they have..."

Kal followed after her, and picked up a few things. He HAD just been in a battle, though it was starting to feel like a long time ago now with so much dumped on him. His brain was struggling to sort out everything and keep up.

He sat down across from her rather than next to her, deliberately. He thought about what she responded to with for a long moment, and then nodded. "So we're agreed we should try to find Hypo Station first." He rolled his head around on his shoulders for a moment. "I can see if DD can find anything so we have at least a lead to start with. I don't really have a lot of contacts that would be good for this sort of thing."

Actually, he didn't really have a lot of 'contacts'. At all.

"I think we'll have better luck on the ground, but research can't hurt. At least it'll let us know what to watch out for."

Kal gave a nod to Tess. "Good. I'll com DD and meet up to discuss things." He smiled. "After our dinner date is over." He let out a chuckle, clearly teasing her.


Afterwards, he commed DD and asked to meet back where they'd been researching previously, and then headed that way. Once together again, he didn't outline what the Captain had said - instead he just mentioned things that he'd like to see if they could look up together, saying it was important, and that might be going on a mission soon.

He asked about Hypo Station - general information to start with and then if there were any known Rebellion or Resistance contacts there. Then he asked about the Collective Manufacturing Confederacy as well. He then asked how long it would take to get from their current position to each location.

The faintest laugh escaped her lips.

"You're  persisent," She said between bites "If you're going to call this a date, I think it's only fair you tell me something  about yourself."

Kal gave her kind of a half-shrug and looked down for a moment, a smile playing on his lips. "Well, if nothing else, you're fun to tease and have a nice laugh. Nothing says we can't try to enjoy our time together at least, even while we are about serious work."

He looked back at her once more. "Well. Let's see. I was born on the Bespin mining colony. My parents are minors." He shook his head. "Not for me. I like to move fast and see new things, meet new people. Though...I suppose, there is a lot of gambling there too. People do know how to have fun some there, but they are usually very good at moderation and control."

He looked at her with curiosity. "How about you?"
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"Not really much to tell. Was just trying to live life, not wanting to get involved in the war. Than the war comes to you anyway,  and you have to make a decision. I made mine, and that's how I got here"

"You said you're from Bespin though? That's a pretty small point in the world. Did you ever meet General Calrissean? We owe him more than we can repay, what with he did at Exagol."

Kal made a face at her, being so vague, "Wow. Insightfully detailed." He leaned towards her, "Oh, come on! Can you at least tell me where you were born?"

And then she asked about the most famous person 'from' Bespin, even though as far as he knew Calrissian wasn't from Bespin, just came in to running the place. He grinned but rolled his eyes at her, "No, I don't know everyone on Bespin." Then just as it was like that was all he had to say, quite a letdown, he went on, "I did see him once. From a distance."

"I was born on Zeltros" She shrugged gently "We don't have a lot of colony worlds. Any, that I'm aware of. At any rate, my parents thought that it wasn't the right place to raise a kid, which I don't  know that I understand. Tried to get  closer to the Core worlds. Opportunities, education, all of that stuff that the rest of the galaxy thinks is respectable but that most  other Zeltrons want no part of."

Kal looked at Tess while she spoke, trying to figure out if she didn't like talking about her past, if she found it uninteresting, or something else. He gave a slow nod. "Huh. Okay."

He tilted his head to one side slightly. "How long you been a pilot? Have you always wanted to fly?" He smiled. "Because you're pretty good at it."

She looked off into the distance, past you rather than at you as she thought on the question "I remember being fascinated when my parents took me to  the Starfighter Museum on Corellia, but it wasn't like I saw it as being a life's calling or anything like that. It was a more simplistic reasoning that if I was going to join the Resistance, I wanted to be where the fighting was, and not shove me behind a desk. The fighting that's going to decide this war is going to be in the stars, not on the surface."

Kal looked at Tess and thought maybe he was prying too much, making her uncomfortable. So he decided to stop. He looked down and then back at her, giving her a nod. "Gotcha."

He waited a moment to make it less abrupt but not too long so as to make it awkward. Then he said, "Alright. Well I'm going to go get DD-3 started. Leave tomorrow?"

"As early as possible, yes. I'll have a word with our resident OPSEC and CI officer, sure they  have a few words of wisdom for us." She said as she quickly got out of her seat.

"Thanks for the company. Sure there'll be plenty of room to know each other soon."

He stopped and smiled at Tess. "I can barely wait." He nodded at her. "See you tomorrow."

He then went to find his droid companion. They had a lot to beep about.

You didn't have to look far. Further down in the P-way, DD-3 was alone, making small circular laps to occupy it's  time. Seeing you, it stopped halfway and came quickly towards you.

[Language unknown: "Ticstiyin estameles asrola ie ncble Onemi Eksi."]

Kal smiled as he saw DD-3 making laps. He gave a small nod, and then replied, "That's unfortunate."

He raised an eyebrow, "I have some good news. Sort of. Well. I have news." He gave a shrug. "We need to go somewhere we can talk privately, and then we'll need to maybe do some research."

[Language unknown: "Tochtr o th latos thuouthas ho al ll e rutcomder." ]He booped and beeped, before speeding around you for a few seconds in anticipation.

[Language unknown: "Saart! Newhi th ouplpr i m prointere! Ne earrutvor ecilss? Fotha te distmi eaularyin plriat, ec San itutai siio eiest"]

Kalidyn nodded at DD's first sentence, and then kept a deliberately innocent-looking poker face for only a moment before giving what could be a very shallow nod as the droid excitedly went on.

He pulled out his datapad and typed out two words, "Hypo Station" - showing the screen to the droid for just a moment before deleting the words.

The droid keeps strangely still for a second as the optical sensor shifts for a few seconds. It than spurs into action, speeding back and forth and a few times as it tries to decide the next action.

"Yes! Research!" He stops for a moment "That would be on the high side. You wouldn't have access to that yet. I can help!"

OOC: In secure environments, unclassified and classified systems and networks are kept separate, and referred to as the "low side" and "high side" respectively.

Kalidyn watched his new droid friend carefully as it was excited, then still, then excited again, moving this way and that....a small amused smile on his face. He nodded and then shook his head as he tried to follow the logical reasoning.

"Correct. I don't have access. And we are leaving in the morning so we don't have a lot of time. Though we'll be able to do some more hands-on things once we get there." He looked at DD-3. "Do you need anything from me?"

"Time!" It beeped away as it sped off to carry out it's tasking.

Kalidyn blinked in surprise at the hasty exit, but then let out a small chuckle of amusement. He straightened back up to his full height once more, shaking his head. He thought for a moment and then let out a breath. He supposed he would get in a little light exercise to make sure all the adrenaline was out of his system, then shower and get to sleep. He had a big day tomorrow.