Collaboration by Aer-ki Jyr

Author:Aer-ki Jyr [Jyr, Aer-ki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-10-28T00:00:00+00:00

Paul was back in the Krachnika System by the time Jason’s command ship caught up to his, with his friend simply saying they needed to have a talk face to face. He expected it could be a number of things when he transferred over to the Sanguine Blade and met his best friend/twin in his personal quarters, oddly enough, instead of the hangar bay.

Jason let the door close before he spoke, raising an eyebrow at him. “What the hell are you doing with the lizards?”

Paul sighed. “Busted, huh?”

“Blue Saber lizards working as a recycling team?”

“Oh,” Paul said, cheering up slightly. “You haven’t found any of the good stuff then.”

Jason did a doubletake, then couldn’t help but snicker a bit. “Alright, time to come clean. What are you up to?”

“Working a new angle,” he said, jumping over an armrest and landing in a big comfy chair as Jason sat on the edge of his bed.

“I thought we weren’t going to annex the lizards.”

Paul raised a cautionary finger. “We’re not. Doing that would be a mistake, I think. Have you kept up on the Uriti reports?”

“Yeah.”

“Far more powerful when working together, as well as displaying a herd mentality that the Chixzon never bothered to discover.”

“You think lizard individuality is a bad thing?”

“I think if we go individual first, like we have with every other race we’ve annexed, it’s going to be a detrimental factor.”

“The Lacvamat,” Jason pointed out.

Paul shook his head. “Still individual based in a group setting. What I’m working here is the idea of treating the group as an individual.”

Jason readjusted his butt on the edge of the bed as his mind chewed on that. “Dog pack?”

“That doesn’t even come close. This is something new, I think, and I’ve been working with Thrawn on modifying their genetic structure. The blue lizards you found are the experimental version we’ve developed for Clan Saber. There are others that he is working with.”

“You’re letting them reproduce en mass again?”

“Somewhat, but the focus is still on bringing in existing populations. I don’t want to just keep them as prisoners, and that’s what will happen if we don’t create a future for them. They can’t join Axius. Their temperament resists the individual nature of Star Force. I’m trying to modify the existing lizard civilization into something tolerable.”

“While getting your own batch?”

“They’re being useful.”

“Obviously,” Jason said with a disbelieving smirk. “I saw your production stats. They’re working like Kiritas.”

“Better, actually, when you factor in the reproduction rates. They’re growing the workers locally rather than shipping them in.”

“No maturias?”

“Nope. Skipping that entirely.”

“Just for recycling and construction?”

“We’re not working the combat angle,” Paul said, guessing as to his concern. “I’m not trusting them with our level of tech, just helping them modify what they’ve got now. And there’s no way I’m sending someone into combat underequipped.”

“For a while I thought you were going to show them the ways of the Force, then send them past the border line to fight their kin.”

“Thrawn would have liked that,” Paul admitted, “but he sees the bigger picture now.

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