Posted by Captain Johann Dvorak (CO) in Johann’s Quarters- Unexpected Messages

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Vora Zorell (Scientist) in Johann’s Quarters- Unexpected Messages

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“Hmm, hold on, I’ll see if it says more,” she said, skimming into attached articles. “Umm, it was a private company for well over a century but.. went public five years ago. Keiro took over as his father’s chosen heir as it was written into the company charter. I don’t know how leadership changes work now, but I could imagine them changing slightly with the new public status.”

“Yeah, usually there is a Board that represents the shareholders, and votes,” he commented. That was at least how it worked on most planets that had private property as part of their development. Contrary to popular conception, that was still how things worked on Earth also; it was just something vastly fewer people felt the need to concern themselves with the details of. The New Economy just seemed to work and people were happy to not really ask how or why.

Still, the fact that Orlai Enterprises was privately held and ended up under Kiero Roden’s leadership due to some sort of inheritance clause was not very reassuring.

“Oh gods… look,” she said as she pulled up a photo of a group of business people at some sort of major gathering. Keiro was easily shorter than the other Tenraith, though he was still probably taller than the average Human male. Bracing an elbow on the desk and resting her chin in her hand, she stared at him, dissecting his body language with skills that she had honed keenly living on Tenra. “He hates it,” she whispered. “Look at his body. He looks so uncomfortable with them. They all look like they own the world and he looks like he’d rather be about anywhere else. It kind of makes me sad.” She hated the idea that he was even a little miserable in his life.

~Vora Zorell, Sciences

“Maybe that counts for something,” he thought aloud.

“Maybe for a lot,” she said.

“He must have had a life before being drafted as a Captain of Industry. Some crowd he would have fit in with more. Maybe in Academia?” It could have explained why he used that odd title that Vora found so silly.

— Johann Dvorak, CO

Vora nodded. “It’s very possible. I mean you already know I’m going to scour the Tenraith media database for anything and everything on this man, so it won’t take much to piece it all together, but…” She sat back in the chair and cast her gaze on Johann, her maroon eyes pensive. “There’s risk, yes, but my instincts tell me that Keiro Roden isn’t like the Hass family, or like people in The D who were only looking out for themselves. This could all be an elaborate ruse, but I know deep in my core that it isn’t. And that makes me want to know him, at least call him and find out more about this man that is most likely my father. Is that a risk you can be on board taking?” It wasn’t just her here. There was Jerrin to consider, and a ship full of crew. She loathed the idea of willingly bringing risk into their lives but Keiro was not like Torno Hass, of that every cell in her body was in agreement with. And that made Roden several steps up in the realm of people she’d associate with.

~Vora Zorell, Sciences