The Kreios System

"Good question, it has been 7 years since the rebellion in creation of the Roman Fell Empire..." Rome said, and found himself smiling caringly, which he didn't do often

He looked back at Ashia, looking at her battle torn, but still young looking body. "How long were you in the militia before you joined the R.F.E?"

"It's been about 5 or 6 years since I joined the Militia at the age of 18," she replied. "I had been born a... a prodigy, you might say. My noble parents gave me a whole bunch of tutors to help me learn things, but it seems my ingenuity is mostly focused on puzzle and stratagem solving. I wanted to be in the army, however. I'd always dreamed of leading soldiers into battle, getting to save lives, fight the villains... " Ashia gazed distractedly, in some sort of blissful state.
Quickly, she snapped back to the real world. "Er, sorry. Anyways, I soon found out that the Militia was nothing like that, but it was too late to change. Once I'd seen the true side of Gavax, I knew I may have made a mistake. But the soldiers. They depend on me; they look up to me as a true leader. That's why almost all of them came with me rather than that son of a-"
Again, Ashia cut herself off. Dammit! she thought. She was opening up too much. She was beginning to regret coming to see Rome. He had some sort of strange... something that drew her to him. Was it his confidence? The way he was so open with her? She didn't know, and wasn't exactly sure if she wanted to find out.
Just then, an engineer walked into the room, bowing low. He was from the Militian division, judging by the white cape and badge with the Militian symbol on it - a red star, surrounded by a red circle with a white line going through the whole thing.
"Apologies, Lord Rome, Lady Nova," said the engineer in a crisp, polite voice. "We have all but finished work on our 'spy'. Would you and Lord Rome wish to see the progress?"
Ashia raised an eyebrow. "How did you finish work in such a small amount of time?"
"Pardon, ma'am, but we'd gotten a good ways through before you left for Lord Rome's chambers. It has been about 2 hours."
Ashia blinked. She hadn't realized the time had passed so quickly. "I would very much like to see it. If I may have your Lordship's pardon?" she asked Rome.

Lord Rome looked a bit out of place, he always did when something unexpected happened. He cought his bearings and looked at Ashia, "You may, I will accompany you there. I would very much like to see how the first combination of The Blackrock Militia and the R.F.E. has gone."

With that they got up and walked to the hangers. Ashia and Rome walked side by side, he knew Ashia was well aware that Rome was looking right at her while they walked, the walk would take a good 10 more minutes before they would reach the Hanger.

Ashia was well aware that Rome was focusing on her as they walked towards the Hangar. At this point, it was obvious he had some sort of attraction to her. He was nice, she guessed; a bit strange, but so was everyone. She mused to herself if she could perhaps use this as an advantage to rise up to the top.
In any case, they reached the Hangar soon enough. On something that sort of resembled a surgical table rested the spy.
It looked exactly like the other robots. It would behave normally, but unconsciously destroy the core systems, finishing their enemy.
Ashia turned to Rome. "So what do you think?" she asked.

Rome looked at it and examined it for a bit "It looks good" He walked around it for a second and then looked back at Ashia and smiled "So when do we send it Blackrock?" He said as he looked back at the engineer.

In truth, he just wanted to be back in his quarters with Ashia talking. He needed information on her. The last thing he needed was a strong part of the R.F.E. turning on him, he needed to know her weaknesses, and her strengths. But she was nice, properly mannered, and not to bad on the eyes. He knew he liked her, but didn't know how to act arounf that. She had basically just joined up, and was already a higher rank than most of his military. Rome needed to clear his thoughts, but everytime he was near her, his mind was a spiral and he couldn't think straight. He needed to figur things out

"Soon," the engineer said. "Maybe in a couple days. We might want to review the strategy a bit more, just so we don't mess this up. But yeah, it's ready to go otherwise."

Three days later...

The spy was ready to go. The Roman-Militian engineers hauled it into a stealth pod, set to land on Blackrock without a trace, upon which the spy would integrate itself with the other C.O.R.e. robots.
They launched it down onto Blackrock. Ashia had a group tracking it's movements, just in case anything went wrong.
Ashia sat among them, watching it descend.

After the launch, Rome asked Ashia to escort him back to his room. When they arrived, he brought her inside. "So, where is it going to land at?" Rome asks as he lays down swiftly onto his bed, resting his head on a pillow, he analyzes her outfit slowly. "You look very nice today." He laid there stairing at her as sweetly as ever.

Ashia gave Rome The Look. The Look was dangerous. It meant that Ashia knew exactly what Rome was trying to do, and she wasn't falling for it.
"Are you trying to seduce me?" she asked very bluntly. "Because I'm pretty sure bosses don't chat with their female workers while lying in their bedrooms."

Rome looked at her bluntly. "I am not trying to seduce you. If I wanted your... 'company' I would have ordered you to do it. I look at you as a friend, maybe more. But I am being very serious. I am tired, so I lay down. Maybe common sense isn't so common..." Rome continued to look at her, but slowly shifted his eyes to the window, showing vast systems, stars... Metoers and planets, moving slowly in space. "Have you ever just stared into the sky and know you would do something great and help everyone... I may have a empire, but I don't even have a planet to rule, like a actual ruler. I have so much I need to work on, and I'm going to be honest, a Emperor can't rule without his Empress. So instead of forcing you, I want to do it conventionally, so I want you to look at me as another person, not a Emperor, not a general, just another being..." He looked back at her

Ashia looked at Rome for a long time. Then she sighed. "Look. You seem nice and all, but..." She paused. "I'm not... I gave up all dreams of romance a long time ago. You're a nice person - and maybe a little cute - but I can't. I really am sorry. I can't do it anymore."
The odd thing was, she really did feel sad and guilty. She did want to be with this man. But it would be hard. And he didn't know anything about her. Not what she'd done to innocent lives. Guilty ones, too. But still lives.
If he really knew anything about her, he would stay away. And she did want him. But she couldn't. And it was heart-wrenching.
All of this internal struggle passed in a second with a blank face. She excused herself, walking out of the hallway, cursing the man that had changed her life.

Rome jumped up chasing her down the hall, grabing her, and forcing her to look at him. He paused a moment before kissing her softly. "I know you aren't proud of things you have done to people in the past. But think, how do you think I got to the position I am in now? You think I haven't done horrible things in the past? I have... And I know, especially for a militia like you were in, being a high rank, you have done horrible things. I know. So please, just try... For me?" He looked at her hopefully, slowly letting go of her, waiting for a response.

Ashia looked at her employer, who was almost on his knees begging to be with her. She'd never really thought of herself as beautiful, but this did seem to show a little more about her employer. He did love her and wanted desperately to be with her. She was so used to people hiding themselves behind masks of secrecy and politics, she was stunned for a moment.
She stood there for almost a minute before saying, "Maybe. Maybe I will, at least if this plan to destroy the C.O.R.e. doesn't end with us as floating bodies in space." She smiled at him, and there was a bit of warmth in that smile. "So let's go insure that that doesn't happen, shall we?"

Rome smiled back "Of course!" He hopped back up onto his feet and they walked hand in hand to the mission room, where they saw that they just allowed the bot into the base and all was going to plan.

Rayan Doyle materializes from the void.

Rayan Doyle has left the area, heading west into The Uranos System.