New Power

[Nick Ryder]

"Well considering my first youngest ended up buying multiple homes only to come back here... at least for now and has pretty much become the second 'patriarch' of the family... " Nick chuckled and shrugged his shoulders. "There'll be a place for everyone. And the Terraforming team should have the second planet in the system habitable and ready for colonization in less than a decade. Keep in mind, this planet is that much smaller than Earth, only like 15% smaller but it has a bit larger continents since we trenched the oceans a bit so even centuries from now, we won't loose too much land mass. Plenty of space for larger families and their heirs. Not really too unlike the original 13 United States colonies, the original settlers had large swaths of land that eventually got parceled out. And we did design the Capitol City and other hub cities to be densely populated, yet close enough to other estates."

[Rebecca Talon]

"You don't have to be close," Rebecca said. "The monorail brings vast distances together in a matter of minutes, and more efficiently than transporters of shuttles."

[Nick Ryder]

"True... y'know... I've never actually taken the monorail. We were going to do a campaign thing on it but Mathers shot the idea down. Thought 'yeah sure that'd be when someone blows it up when you're on it'." Nick winced and chuckled. "Nah that was just my Capitol building that was vaporized..."

[Rebecca Talon]

She frowned, "Yeah I know. I wish I could have been there."

[Natalia Ryder-Singh]

"But then you wouldn't be here now." Natalia said with a smile. "Things work out the way they have to." she cocked her head slightly. "So can I put you on AlphaTek's payroll? I really could use an engineer like you. Or does the Jase'dasis order not allow you to actually profit off your genius?"

[Rebecca Talon]

She shook her head, "It's not exactly forbidden. It's just frowned upon. Just like romantic relationships. Because of Ethan and Milo I'll never make the rank of master. Tell you what. If you need help on something I'll do your consulting."

[Natalia Ryder-Singh]

"Excellent! I think we could do a lot of great things together." Natalia said and hugged her. "Besides, Nick shouldn't 'horde' you anyway. And you and I look pretty close to each other, if you barked orders they'd probably think it was me giving them."

[Rebecca Talon]

"I prefer to be leading the way as opposed to barking orders. But, I will certainly take that as a compliment since I'm old enough to be your grandma."

[Natalia Ryder-Singh]

"Becca, you're like a few years on me. Although I will sorta take it as a compliment since you think I look so young!" Natalia said with a grin. "It's a new skin treatment that we've been working on, sort of tricks the skin into thinking it's far younger than it is. I don't even have stretch marks." she lifted the side of her blouse. "They last about a day and then gone. Old wounds heal super fast. It's not quite ready for public consumption, still costs too much and it can't touch clothing when it's first applied."

"So that's why you weren't dressed when I called you." Nick snapped his fingers. "And Khan was with me!"

"Yeah... it's still in development but just think, old won't have to look old anymore." Natalia said and hummed. "Y'know Becca there is one thing that Tony was working on, as part of your 'anti-Ajem weapons' project, he found a frequency that can disrupt your kildens. Cause it to not even activate, it temporarily changes the vibration of the crystal that powers it and it won't ignite a stable blade. I told him that knowledge could be dangerous if it got in the wrong hands."

[Rebecca Talon]

She shrugged, "To whom? I don't need a kliden, as I can use the ijulna."