"I’m pretty sure I’m human. Every purity test ca back positive, I had to do a lot of them after my plus beca common knowledge." Carl chuckled.
"Yeah, didn’t they even do a stem cell scraping your first year? Dude, I still rember how hard Klaire hit after nudging you." Gillian laughed.
"Yeah, she was not happy. I think she was just picking up on mum’s, Lydia’s and Danielle’s tension."
Carl laughed about it then asked if contracts were ready to sign. "Yeah, we also have occupational clauses. I am not happy about how we have already got used to the admin nightmare that is your build." Alysse laughed as she started spreading out contracts.
Carl gave them a cursory skim read, then his face dropped. "Hey guys, can I talk to you in private please."
When they had moved away from the others, Carl asked why they were imposing conditions, that to him seed extravagant.
"Look, we have a lot of territory, rich in resources yes, but no way or knowledge on how to extract them. If we don’t plan ahead we could end up watching people starve." Gillian stated the situation in a way that Carl knew he was right.
"Fine, you’re right. So we need to focus on securing and processing." Carl muttered, making the others sigh.
"Don’t be an idiot, survey and analysis still cos first, that’s why we wrote in preliminary survey responsibilities to speed up the process and get at least a few surveys completed before we move them into long-term vocations." Alysse grumbled.
"Carl, please try and have so faith in us, we aren’t trying to abuse those signing on. We’ve actually discussed contributions we need to start making as well. We might be your friends, but we can’t just leech of you and wait until you ask for stuff."
"Guys, stop okay. I get why, trust I felt the sa with my mums. I don’t want to start operating and acting as lofty as the committee though."
"Carl, hate to say it but you are the sa as the committee..." Everyone tensed as Gillian spoke, they knew it had just co out wrong, but they also understood why the air was filled with a loud cracking noise as Carl’s fist connected with his jaw. "Fuck! Carl, just let finish before you hit !"
"You better speak quickly then." Carl’s voice was frozen and his eyes locked on Gillian with violent intent.
"You are the ruling class here! That ans you have to act like it! You can’t just expect everyone to get along all the ti and you can’t expect everyone to only take what they need. I’m saying you have to set the rules and make it clear who the leader is. Too slack and it will beco survival of the fittest and too strict and you will be just like the committee." He added the last bit as he rubbed his jaw, driving the point ho.
"Sorry, I should have let you finish, but seriou-" He spoke as he extended a hand to help Gillian up.
"Carl you’re the last person that gets to complain about people’s phrasing." Gillian’s response ca as he was getting up.
"If you two are done with the lover’s tiff, can we go get these contracts signed. We need to get ready for Daniel’s family, register wavelengths, Carl needs to build housing, then we need to go through orientation." Blanc said as he stretched two fingers for every item.
"Why two fingers for each job?" Carl asked after he, Alysse and Gillian spent ti looking at each other in regards to his dubious counting.
"Because sohow you building housing will be the quickest item on the damn agenda, Mr. I’m gonna go claim half the damn cosmos." Blanc ranted, a bit more frustrated about the scale of every little task than he realised.
"Well if it’s any consolation my week just got busy too." Carl muttered, a pri example of the sa vagueness that had robbed him of the right to complain about Gillian’s phrasing.
As Carl went through and began signing conflicts, back in the misty village and birthplace of the Bashe clan, Klaire found herself bombarded with ssages as she tried to eat dinner.
[ SOPHIE HAS JOINED THE HOUSEHOLD ]
[ DANIEL HAS JOINED THE HOUSEHOLD ]
[ CALLUM HAS JOINED THE HOUSEHOLD ]
[ PHOEBIE HAS JOINED THE HOUSEHOLD ]
[ ALAN HAS JOINED THE HOUSEHOLD ]
[ JAS HAS JOINED THE HOUSEHOLD ]
[ CONNOR HAS JOINED THE HOUSEHOLD ]
[ CRAIG HAS JOINED THE HOUSEHOLD ]
[ MARK HAS JOINED THE HOUSEHOLD ]
[ ANNE HAS JOINED THE HOUSEHOLD ]
[ LOUISE HAS JOINED THE HOUSEHOLD ]
[ HANNAH HAS JOINED THE HOUSEHOLD ]
[ PHILIP HAS JOINED THE HOUSEHOLD ]
[ MARY HAS JOINED THE HOUSEHOLD ]
[ SAMANTHA HAS JOINED THE HOUSEHOLD ]
Taken completely by surprise, Klaire dropped her cutlery and gripped her head as she fud about Carl not warning her. It obviously confused them, but not enough for them to not find it amusing enough to make his inevitable punishnt worse.
Back on Mirage, as everyone was recovering from the "What do you an? Klaire send another ssage?"
"No, but I need to create storage armlets linked to a central bank for every mber. I also realised I need a chief of HR and I want them to be a chira as similar to Equinox as possible."
The other three laughed. "Oh right, nothing says "human resources" like a dragon. Hahaha!" Alysse managed to wheeze out through the whiplash the sudden bout of hysterics gave her.
"I ant in terms of temperant. Level-headed and as human as possible. We could ask that half-angel for a few feathers."
"Why? I already have so." Alysse’s announcent caught the boys off-guard. "What? I asked him for so to make a pillow."
"Typical Alysse, blind to anyone but Carl and Klaire..." Gillian muttered with a laugh.
"I better send him a ssage and let him know Alysse isn’t interested and ask his permission." Blanc finished as they headed back to Lugaria to sort receive Daniel’s family and register wavelengths.
After that Carl had a big decision to make, which world to sacrifice for purely residential use. The future would almost certainly involve residential buildings on every controlled world eventually, but keeping everyone together at this stage was preferable, so no one felt disconnected from the faction.
Lugaria was operational HQ, Mirage was Diplomatic HQ, their beast keeping HQ was destined for Lunelia, Archyon was going to be the ho of the re-established fox-kin and Carl hadn’t even nad the other worlds.
"Let’s head to the map room after, maybe we can narrow it down from there." Carl finally said.
"Yeah, I’m kinda glad the extra manpower ans we can get all the surveys finished up. We obviously can’t keep Daniel’s family at HQ, so I suggest splitting them into three. We can have them split down the middle pretty much." Gillian mused, the ever persistent chasm-dwarf had made it his mission to pester him for a complete list of available resources.
"I know that families like theirs and Klaire’s have different branches, but how many are we actually getting? I trust you guys enough to sign the contracts in advance..."
"Actually there’s over fifty coming, Lillim would blow a gasket if we signed on that much "dead weight she needs to beat into shape", so Gillian had the idea to make family cell contracts. They won’t be faction mbers, but they will be bound to the core tenants of the faction under the mber’s contract..." Blanc trailed off at the end, not wanting to take a punch like Gillian.
"What? I promise, I won’t hit you, you’re not as hittable as Gillian."
"If any particular cell violates the rules three tis, the whole group will have every mory from the ti of signing erased and they will be barred from ever entering our territory again." Blanc finished his earlier statent as matter-of-factly as he could.
"Sounds harsh, but not unreasonable, can soone give a good reason for that level of punishnt."
"We don’t have the manpower to police everyone, only faction mbers can be assigned a pet, which is really the only believable witness we’ll have in a situation that doesn’t cause a contractual violation." Alysse explained, as she gestured to tell Carl he needed to get a move on with the pets.
"Okay, okay, I get it. I need to focus on one thing at a ti. On that subject, Gillian, honestly... How is it going with Sitter?"
"Honestly mate, I failed, I understand how much effort you put into getting on so well with them. I thought it was just natural because you created them, but then I saw you during your "family eting" with the dragons.You don’t force it or even know them, you take the ti to get to and comprise and stand your ground... I think the best thing to do, would be to reassign him to Kon, they get on like a house on fire."
"Will do. I’ll have to reevaluate my plan though, seems you need a pet with a personality you can bounce off rather than cover each other’s weaknesses. Blanc, I know you’re about to be much busier as a realm gate technician, I want you to pick a team from the new starters to have one person at each station. Alysse, I want you and sophie focused on maintenance schedules, then the sa, get a team you think can get the job done."
"Do I get a team too?"
"No, you get to keep slugging away, you already have the dragons as emissaries and I want it to stay that way for now with pets fulfilling that role. I do want you to find a human to act on the human front when the ti cos, but I will be handling that personally for the most part, so they will basically be free to act as your PA."
"Sounds good, now I can I make a suggestion for the residential world?"
"Sure..."
Gillian swiped a hand to a desert world that was almost entirely the sa as Earth, but was richer in resources. "I know, we’re sacrificing a lot in terms of resources for the ti being, but thinking ahead it makes the most sense."
"I agree, I was thinking the sa to be honest, It will feel familiar and has enough variety that most races can find a place to call ho and I can tweak certain areas without burning through my DIV." Carl looked to the other two who just gestured that they didn’t have an opinion on the matter.
"Well I guess this planet is our faction’s new ho. You get to na it Boss.
"I’ll just call it Haven, I don’t care enough about nas at this point, I’m sick of it... In fact, start a poll, I want everyone to co up with nas for worlds and people can vote on what sounds good and whichever has the most votes when the ti cos will be used."
"That is so lazy..." Alysse grumbled.
"Hey! I have to na, species, pets, chiras and who knows what else when the ti cos. I am all nad out." They all laughed at that and then made the na "Haven" official and then Carl collected the dragons and Kitsunoko before heading off.
[ FACTION WIDE SSAGE RECEIVED FROM CARL : OFFICIALLY HAVE A FACTION HOWORLD, PLEASE SEND A LIST OF ANY IMDIATE HOUSING PREFERENCES AND REQUIRENTS. NOTHING EXTRAVAGANT AS INITIAL HOUSING WILL BE ABANDONED WHEN PLANETARY SURVEY IS FINISHED AND TRANSPORT MAKES BRANCHING OUT VIABLE. I WILL SEND ANOTHER SSAGE WHEN THE TI COS AND FACTION CHIEFS AND ADVISORS WILL BE GRANTED PERMISSION AND BUDGET FOR EVERYONE. ]
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