Captain Keer Tucker was moving before the confirmation from Colonel Vale had come through. Empire day was one of the most important events for any man in the Imperial military, and Keer had a very important job to do. Vale had placed him in charge of security at the palace for the upcoming "ceremony" the Governor would no doubt be hosting for all his fat rich friends. Vale had stressed the importance of nothing going wrong as regular Imperial troops were rarely able to provide security at the palace, and Tucker had made the place air tight. No one got in or out without one of his officers cleraing it with Tucker first. He was on his way to the hanger now, for a number of reasons.

First and foremost was in order to personally recieve the Governor and colonel Vale and escort them to where they needed to be. Another reason was Vale informing Keer to expect another high ranking Imperial officer to arrive soon, who they were or what part of the Imperial army they were a part of had not been discussed. That made Keer more than a little nervous, why the hush hush on this new officer? He had his suspicions of course, personally he thought it must be some COMPNOR agent or something, not that his opinion really mattered. ALmost on cue, his lieutenant in the hangar informed him of an approaching Imperial shuttle. [b]"Has it provided landing codes? Are they correct? Then why the hell are you asking me what to do you blithering idiot, let them through!"[/b] Keer sighed, some of his "officers" probably couldn't keep their uniforms clean without help, he had already had to court marshal one of them for incompetence in his first month on Boonta. And now, one of them needed Keer to micromanage his fucking job for him, seeing as he may have almost shot down an Imperial shuttle carrying the very officer Vale told Tucker about.

As he entered the hangar proper Keer could see his lieutenant wasn't COMPLETELY useless, he had managed to get his troopers in neat lines flanking where the Governors shttle was set to land. Keer also saw the other shuttle taking off, without the one passenger who had disembarked from it. Before Keer could move to intercept the officer the Governors shuttle entered the hangar, Keer cursed himself and hustled up next to his lieutenant, "Just in time sir, not a moment to late", Tucker sneered at him, [b]"A good officer is never late, and dosen't need his superiors to do  his  bloody job for him"[/b] the young officer got the message and turned to face the approaching shuttle, afraid of making anymore mistakes in front of his captain. Tucker smiled as the shuttle landed, it was good his men feared him, made them work harder. 

As the shuttle ramp descended Captain Keer Tucker's smile disappeared, replaced with the stern neutral look all officers were supposed to have, and as the Governor exited the craft followed by Vale, [b]"Governor, you'll find everything is in order and the palace is more secure than it has ever been."[/b], he saluted as they exited, prepared to escort them or recieve new orders from Vale as necassary.