Makobi's eyes widened. "We're not going back to retrieve her?!" Captain Ray somberly responded with an order to close the hangar doors and prepare for hyper drive. "Captain!" The human made his way towards the elevator and disappeared behind its sliding double doors. The onrilian angrily readjusted his comm headset and shouted into the small mic device sticking out of the singular headphone. "Captain Ray, Makobi is requesting permission to retrieve Cassie O'Hare and her vessel, over." 

Silence. 

The feeling of helplessness was like a swift kick in the groin. His entire world went topsy turvy as his heart sank to the floor. Makobi just saw her twenty minutes ago, casually jogging out into the hangar bay, jokingly giving a half-salute to him like she always did before blasting off into the stars. He refused to believe it, suggesting that the ground crew was trying to pull some sort of cruel prank. He looked out into space, waiting for her orange star racer to come swooping into the hangar. Edgar, Allen, and Poe gathered around the exosuited onrilian, murmuring to themselves in drone speech before craning their camera lenses up at the opened rear docking gates. 

Makobi let out a sigh. He walked back over to the main control console and activated the lock sequence for the hangar bay gate. His mechanical hand hovered over the last button that needed to get pushed in order for the gate to start closing. After what felt like a lifetime, he slammed on the button hard and walked away. The caution alarms blared throughout the hangar bay and cargo hold. The pressurized hydraulic systems of the large gate sputtered alive, cranking the massive doors inward until it sealed the hangar bay shut. Makobi ejected himself from the exosuit, slamming his comm headset onto the ground. 

"Edgar, prep the rooms for hyper drive travel." The docking drone chirped repeatedly at him as if to ask: [i]Where are you going?[/i] He didn't respond. Makobi wandered off into the far corner of the hangar bay where his Crab Shack stood on its lonesome. He needed a drink.