Fortuna Verto

13-Organized Chaos

While the two girls were hard at work turning their luck around, others were hard at work dealing with the repercussions of their past actions. Investigations behind certain still unexplainable events continued apace, keeping matters fairly busy for those still involved.

Nick was finding himself faced with the awkward instance of dealing with maintenance for his own shuttle. He wasn't actually exactly certain what had gone wrong, but for some reason a lot of the contracted staff had suddenly disappeared. This was especially annoying because it included a vast majority of the technicians that would typically run maintenance on everything, so only the most critical jobs were being delegated to the remaining technicians. He did at least have enough knowledge of the subject to handle much of the basics, emergencies on the field would require such basic knowledge, but it did mean he had gotten quite rusty on the subject. This had him especially scared out of fear that he might have been forgetting to check something important, a thing which might itself be ready to fail on his next flight. It was for this reason that he'd been in the maintenance garage for much longer than expected, a problem which was also causing stress for other people.

"Pilot, what is taking you so long? You're wasting time here, not just for yourself, but for several others waiting to make use of this space. Additionally, we need you back in the air, you're already late for your first flight, we already had to have it reallocated. This is putting a delay on how many customers we can service at a time, which can affect our reputation. As a representative of our Aerospace transit system, the time you waste for yourself is in turn a problem for everyone." "I'm sorry, it's just I'm not all that certain about the checks I've run on my system. Everyone's been talking about that big crash a while ago.. how no one survived. They say it was an act of sabotage, but no one has been caught yet. What if my equipment was tampered with too?" "My word, that incident is causing far too many problems. Fine, bring the thing over to the deep sense bay, we'll run a full scan for you. Just be quick about it, we can't sustain these delays." The aerospace staff present made a few notes on a holo to have such a process approved, surprising Nick. Getting accepted for a deep sense scan would require someone of high authority from Aerospace command, but he didn't even recognize the human woman before him. He knew a lot of humans like to cause trouble for conduits like him, so this was reasonably concerning.

"I'll make sure to bring my shuttle over once official authorization arrives from one of the high commands of aerospace control." "My word, you're being difficult. Are you trying to cause trouble, or are you trying to just insult me? You do know I am a rank authority of aerospace control, right?" "I know all of the main authorities, I've managed to stay in this field because I pay attention to stuff like that. You.. I don't even know at all." Nick was surprised when his holo immediately flashed with a notification from aerospace control that he's been approved for deep sense, even instantly after the woman before him set aside her holo. She had then pushed such down official avenues using the aerospace system, which could only be done by someone with a very high authority at aerospace command. This didn't make sense at all, someone that high up who he hadn't ever met before? No one climbs the ladder that quickly. Had he then just made a mistake, forgetting someone somehow for his first time ever due to being so flustered in the circumstances? It was incredibly unlikely.. and yet it was also the only possible answer.

"According to your records, Nick, you've been here for five years less than I've been at Aerospace control itself. Clearly, the stress of the moment has put you on edge, which is behaviour we can't have you carry before your customers. While your shuttle is in deep sense, make sure to complete some quick maintenance on your own attitude, before things get any worse for you. As is, you will find this whole situation will have left a mark on your rather spotless record, an already unfortunate turn of events. Otherwise, since you seem to hold such pride in your also flawed record of remaining aware of your highest superiors, my name is Velvet, be certain to not forget it next time." Velvet was gone quickly after that, obviously then resuming the fairly busy responsibilities of an officer of aerospace command. Nick however was completely stunned, this was a total disaster. He would have to work hard after this to make up for such a loss, the others were already going to mock him over this. Standing against such a person, it was one of the stupidest things he'd ever done. He rushed to bring his shuttle to deep sensing, being heavily critical of himself the entire way along.