Old Friends starting new bonds

[Cavalry King]

Julius was walking down a corridor in the massive complex he called a home. Several attendants and assistants followed him in a usual procession, always seen near the man while he walked the grounds of him home. The assistants from his business were begging him for his attention so that he could look at some new "pressing issue", his political attendants were doing much the same. After a few minutes of Julius walking and the assistants begging him, he stopped abruptly. The assistants were shocked and stopped quickly as well, fearful what he might say. Julius turned nonchalantly and said to them, “Come now, relax. I will take care of all things in due time.”
His voice was so friendly and convincing that the unnerved assistants were put and ease and Julius and his procession resumed their normal pace. He could only laugh. If he gave his attention to every detail he would be as nervous as these guys were. That wouldn’t be good for his hair. He laughed again at that thought. He would give them the proper attention soon, he just wanted to enjoy the gardens he had so painstakingly planted himself. It felt soothing and he greatly enjoyed walking through it. As he passed through several of his exotic pets ran over to him, Vornskrs who had been trained since birth and had their tails cut off, which made them more manageable. The pets were keen only to Julius, so most avoided the garden unless accompanied by him.

After petting his pets, he left into his study where he sighed and looked to his attendants, he was about to tell them to start when his screen flashed to life and his security officer informed him that a Senator Kail had arrived. Julius flashed a sneaky smile and said, “I’m sorry boys, but I simply must welcome the Senator and cannot make him wait. We can discuss these things later.”

Julius turned to the screen and said, “Let him in, send him the coordinates for the guest entrance.”

If the Senator came in from the front, the media would likely arrive soon enough, and Julius was not in the mood to deal with any media if any did decide to show up.

[Daren & Donald Kail]

Donald had enjoyed his vacation so far so he decided he might as well make on buiness trip. He hadn't been contact with his old friend Julius. He sent in the request to land and flew around in circles. He was amazed the media hadn't followed him to Corellia. He'd been back a couple days and couldn't believe they hadn't stalked his every move. It was just one of the other charms of Corellia no one cared about the Chancellor. He laughed at the request to go into the guest entrance and flew his shuttle into the docking bay. He fixed his robe and checked his concealed weapons and then quickly left his shuttle. Donald always felt outclassed when he came here. They had about the same amount of wealth Donald assumed but Donald just wasn't a lavish spender. He kept most of his money in investments like Solo's company. He just didn't need all the stuff. He walked slowly down his shuttles platform and towards the door of the mainsion.

[Cavalry King]

As the senator landed, he was greeted by a throng of servants offering him things from drinks, food, towels, a path to the bathroom, etc. After a few moments, Julius emerged from one of the doors, dressed in his formal attire, wearing all his various medals. He could only smile as he saw his friend land down. He opened his arms wide as if to embrace his old friend and he approached slowly.

“Senator, welcome to my humble abode. I do hope you will forgive me for the current state, I was going to have entertainment and new drapes put in but you came so soon!” Julius joked. He knew his home was flawless, but always liked to open with a joke.

He was happy to see his friend, but they had not met in some time and he wondered why exactly he was being visited. Hopefully it was something good.

Still slowly approaching and with arms stretched wide he said, “I hear you are to become the new Chancellor! It seems our bid has been successful. Congratulations my friend.”

[Daren & Donald Kail]

Donald couldn't help but laugh at all the servants and at Solo, "Surely the news isn't that bad out here...I'm just running I haven't won yet you old fool." Donald said with a great sense of humor he just took some water from a servant and sighed, "Do you really forget about me this quickly I hate all these formalities! I hate partys and that junk... I do my job for the people and then I go home!" Donald laughed and embraced his old friend, "What's with all the metals...I gave you a couple of those when I was admiral didn't I?" Donald said with a smirk. He hadn't seen Julius in too long. It was good to see someone so happy. The Senator rarely found anyone like him. He did have buiness on the mind though, "We need to speak in private my friend." looking around at all the sevants, "Very private..."

[Cavalry King]

At his friends first reply, Julius shook his head and said, “Who else running is better than you? Or for that matter, who else is running?” the thought of it was humorous to him, that his friend might go unchallenged.

He nodded at the rest and embraced his friend, then turned to the door with his right hand resting on his friend’s shoulder. “Of course my friend, please… follow me.”

He began walking towards the door and it hissed open as the train of people followed him. He walked along the lavish hallways of his home, decorated with items from across the galaxy, many of them gifts, others souvenirs. Many of those souvenirs were rare animals, Julius kept well trained, but ferocious animals from across the galaxy. Many guarded different areas outside of his home, however many stayed inside. He had a particular fondness for Vornskrs and kept several of them inside of his home. They knew the servants who worked inside, but they smelled newcomers from a great distance and became agitated. As they approached, they growled and hissed at the Senator until Julius shouted a command in Huttese and they just eyed the Senator viciously and walked along side the procession.

At Julius’ study, he looked to all those following and said, “I must be alone with the senator. Go relax, I’ll call you when I need you.” They left excitedly and it was just Julius, Daren, and two Vornskrs in the study. The beasts sat next to Julius, who sat behind his desk. They did not break their attention from the guest however.

Julius looked across the table at Donald and said, “What is it that you needed to see me about?”

[Daren & Donald Kail]

Donald sighed, he had been wanting to talk to Julius for a while about this and it was important. Very important, Donald didn't know how to say it but he was going to try anyway.
"Julius your company has been doing the Republic a great service and you have yourself." Donald took a sip of his water and continued vaguely eyeing the animals,
"We apprciate your support in ship building and development of new weapons. Without your company we wouldn't be a safe as we are. Now, I have been trying to expand your programs even more and I plan to if I am elected Chancellor. Without the support of your company and several others the Republic wouldn't be able to withstand full out war. Now this is all common knowledge I'd say. What I am asking from you next won't be." Donald sighed and collected his thoughts about this intently. He decided he best wait for his friends response of the matter before countinuing. It would give him the time he needed to decide if he wanted to tell him everything now or just drop hints. Julius was an old friend but this was a important matter that the Republic might depend on. He couldn't risk anything going against the Republic...

[Cavalry King]

Julius’ interest perked up as his friend spoke like this. He did not feel as though his loyalty or service were being questioned but why would he just stop like that without finishing. Julius sighed also and stroked his beard with the side of his right pointer finger. He smiled and said, “You know I am willing to do whatever is necessary to aid the Republic. As Prime Minister of Corellia, I have done whatever I could to help the Republic. Now in this time, I do not plan to change that. I am willing to do whatever it takes, as long as Corellia will not be harmed. You know I must consider Corellia’s interests first”

Julius scratched the heads of his pets and sat calmly waiting for his friend. In these situations where people became very serious and tense, Julius had a reputation for remaining calm and collected.

[Daren & Donald Kail]

Donald smirked he expected such a response from Julius and liked it, "I have something in the early planning phases...it would require a large amount of money, workers and a location." Donald sipped his water quietly and laughed the man loved his pets...he didn't have a wife even after all these years. Donald couldn't help himself, "When are you going to go off and get married?" Donald had a tendency to make jokes about such things. He wouldn't be able to contain the habit. Donald had decided not to give all the details but he thought he should give a couple more, "It would need to be a secret project held from private eyes. It would benfit the Republic greatly but would need to be kept in the dark. I've had a couple contacts come up with ideas for it. I didn't think it would be neccassary but the Sith's grasp on the galaxy is strengthinig. I won't wait until it's a chokehold, if I win Chancellor we will probably start building more weapons. Larger and more deadly, we cannot allow them to be on our doorstep. When I was in the military we didn't need anything like I am propsoing but back then we had the best military. I'm not desprate...not yet I'm just overprepareing myself. A friend of mine...A jedi, told me such actions as building up our military would provoke the Sith..I believe he was right. This is why I have come to this." Donald sighed finisheing his water. He hoped he hadn't spoken to little..Julius would like the money he knew that much so in that part of it he should be ok. He trusted him and he hoped he'd be able to handle such a project as the one he might propose...

[Cavalry King]

Julius cracked another smile, at everything, not just the joke. Big business always made him happy. He just looked across the table for a while and said, “So you want me to construct a.. secret fleet? Or would you like me to set my engineers to invent new ones, or both? You know I have no reservations when discussing business ventures. It would be costly any way we decide to do it. I would have to have my usual workers assemble the ships in small parts so they do not know what they are doing, and have the ships finished in secret.”

He got up and walked over to a small fridge he kept in his study and took out a glass of wine. He poured two glasses and walked back over to the table, sipping his glass as he walked back. “Wine?” he said offering the glass to his friend. He set the glass on the table and then sat back down. He folded his hands together and put on a serious look, “what exactly are we talking about.”

[Daren & Donald Kail]

Donald laughed he loved Julius he was a genius of buiness and talked straight to you. He didn't have to explain much. Corellian wine was the only kind donald ever drank and Don drank little. He sipped just a little and smiled it was good. "I was thinking that." Donald said laughing, "Building a fleet in total secret, but that's hard to do. The Sith have spies everywhere. A entire fleet is hard to hide, probably wouldn't be much choice though. If you could hide a fleet...and I think you could...that would work." Donald sighed he didn't look forward to explaining this part, "This isn't just buiness though, this is poltics...and if the Sith figured out about it they would declare war. That is unexceptable. I thought about this and another option did occur to me." Donald didn't want to go around the bush with this so he just said it, "A weapon....a single extremely powerful weapon. What? I don't know but it would have to be able to withstand alot of damage and have the battle capablities of many ships. Maybe we could make more than one...we probably should. I don't know how powerful of a weapon we could make. But It'd need to be something that would be useful in small numbers. A bomb...a Battleship...something..." Donald sighed and took another ship, this is the part he didn't like about this idea. The death toll of it would be catastphoric to make any difference at all. He then contiuned, "Nothing Biological...that's far to risky and I would never support it. It would have to be something we could try and contain and only use against the enemy's fighters....War or not I will not kill innoceant people." Donald looked Julius deeply in the eyes for this and didn't like saying it, "Even if buiness would suffer."

[Cavalry King]

Julius thought about the ramifications of these actions. He would have to spend a great deal of the political capital he had built up over the years. He would try to go the safest route possible first and if that did not work, then he would go to “plan B”. “A fleet would not be as difficult as you think. As I said, I would build the individual parts and when the war started, quickly assemble them and in a few days, the fleet would be born. Or I could begin to build a “Corellian Fleet”. We have our sovereign rights to construct our own fleets, and as the war started, sell the ships to the Republic. This way I could spend Corellian money, which would be enough to sustain the cost until the war started, and if it never does, well, I sell the parts to commercial shippers in need for spare parts.”

He hoped that would be enough but he might have something else.

[Daren & Donald Kail]

Donald smirked he knew he had come to Julius for a good reason. The plan would work more than likely. Donald now went into the more buiness side of the idea,

"Alright...that should work. Hopefully the Republic has enough soldiers I will work on the enlistment part as well..but that's none of your concern. If you have the money for it I'd start right away. We'd need the ships to be top of the line battlecrusiers. If we have an army of pitiful ships it won't make much difference. I would need the ships ready within the week of war breaking out. I have developed several plans while on the Military board and we need many ships. We would want the Sith to be stuck by surprise and at their heart. With your current wealth how many ships could you have ready and how much time?" Donald sipped the wine a little it tasted sweeter as the deal had progressed. This was his way out of the problem he had been looking for. With this out of the way he could refocus on becoming Chancellor...

[Cavalry King]

Julius smiled, he was almost being written a blank check, the only problem was he was not sure how far he could go. Julius rose from his chair and walked over to his library and drew a data card on his shipbuilding operation. He turned to the senator and said, “My friend, it is not a question of my resources, but yours. I can build whatever you need, however you understand that things take time. If you put me to build massive capital ships, it will take a longer time than if I was to build corvettes and battleships, I might have them sooner. It all depends on how many you need and how long you think we will have until a full blown war, especially if we are to build as you say. I am the best man for the job, and I will do the best in the situation. I can get loans and donations for almost any project, so my resources need not be called into question.”

He was frank while doing business, he would not sugar coat anything even for a friend. He had to let him know the stark reality.

(Sorry, watching Myth busters.)

[Daren & Donald Kail]

Donald smiled, Julius as always straigh to buiness exically what Donald needed to hear,
"Capital ships mostly, some of all though. The money factor depends on how many people I can get on my side. From the looks of things you should have about triple the funding you have for our current projects. I know of a couple senators I could trust in helping me get support. So expect about that if not much more. If war starts I will have enourmous support in the Senate and if you have large supply of Ships for sell...the outcome is obvouis. Not only would you hold a monopoly hold over the warship industry you'd make alot of money." Donald smiled this was going to be a very good deal for both of them...plus Donald would get some of it back he owned a nice chunk of the company. "My oppoents will try to say that this is porkbarrel spending before the war...and private intrest and such. I don't care what they think of it...I want to protect the Republic." Donald raised the wine glass and drank, "This is our chance."

[Cavalry King]

Julius nodded and swirled his wine as he thought. He could see a few problems though, with the final result not being a happy ending. He sighed at the thought. “Well, if you intend to pay triple, I would like some of the money up front to cover some of the costs. A few credits, to show interest and intent, you understand I cannot begin such a project without some comfort. Though, since this is a favor, I won’t need much. I will absorb most of the initial costs and charge the Republic once the war begins. So, do we have a bargain?”

[Daren & Donald Kail]

Donald sighed and went into deep thought...he then laughed, "I have so much money myself I could easily give you a little...I have nothing to spend it on. You shall recieve it as donation through one of your charites." He smilled and took a last sip of wine before putting the half full glass on the table, "The military pays a great retirement...the senate pays even more and your buiness makes me a lot. I give most away anyway...at least now it's for the Republic. Either way you should profit my friend. As you said if it doesn't come to war...simpley sell it off to other companies or people. Ships are always in high demand...and parts too." Donald smiled and shook his friend's friend. "Now buiness is done...are you going to kick me out?" Donald gave Julius one of his signature smirks and patted his back

[Cavalry King]

Julius chuckled and shook his head, he finished his wine and petted his pets. “No, actually I was planning on feeding you to the animals. My poor creatures haven’t had a fine meal in quite some time…”

He laughed and opened the door of the office, his pets following him and growling at Donald as they passed. “No, perhaps we could just talk? How is the family?”

Julius gave his sincere concern to Donald. He stopped and held the empty wine glass in his hand near his chest in a dignified pose. He cared about his friends, but also knew it was important to be friendly to keep good relations with people. He knew that personal connections always endeared people to you.

[Daren & Donald Kail]

Donald sighed and took a deep breath, "Daren is still missing, Betty is great...as she always has been." He laughed and winked, "What I get for marring a Zeltron..." He laughed but it wasn't very convensing even to himself. He was concerned for Juluis to but he wouldn't ask as bluntly, "You seem to be enjoying yourself and wealth...and lack of human interatction." Donald said smirking. He doubted his friend cared for a permant woman around. He doubted he could give her the attention. Julius was to in love with himself...but not a bad man. He hadn't tried to get married probably because he knew it himself. Donald cleared these thoughts and just smiled walking through the nice mansion

[Cavalry King]

Julius laughed at Donald’s innuendo, he always found the Senator’s personal life to be comical in a way. As they walked, Julius nodded as his friend spoke but then paused when he said “lack of Human interaction”. It seemed his friend had forgotten who he was talking to. Julius laughed at that and petted the head of one of the Vornskrs that was following him. “Perhaps, we have been part far too long. I entertain more humans than those that sit in the Senate!” he said jokingly.

He knew there were far more Senators than his guests, but the exaggeration made his point clear. But then he shook his head, “… unless you mean on a more… personal level? If so, you must understand that a man in my position must think any choices on a permanent partner very clearly. Mine would be more… political. You understand.”

Julius did not show any displeasure with the topic of the conversation, as one might usually see. As a politician he had rehearsed his demeanor for any situation that might be thrown at him, especially the media. He kept walking down a long hallway, illuminated by the sun that had just risen to its apex and was shining directly through the window. He turned and looked outside, admiring the pond and gardening on that side of his home. “Its marvelous, isn’t it. Such beauty is rare. My ancestors were brilliant in choosing such a site for our home.”

He stood there with his hand folded behind his back, standing tall, looking outside. Julius was a man who loved beauty, in all things.

[Daren & Donald Kail]

Donald was couldn't help but laugh. His friend was very formal while Donald was laid back. He also found his comments on marriage hilarous, "Oh Love is rubbish! Who falls in love!" Donald struggled not to laugh at his own comment. He wasn't surprised Julius though in such a way but he struggled to believe anyone else could. Everything was buiness with Julius, even love. He wouldn't do anything without the intention of money behind it. Donald then turned to his friend with a smile,
"I'm sure you'll find yourself a lovely lady oneday...or a man." Donald smirked and patted his shoulder. He hated it when Julius was so stiff and uniform.