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[B]Mao Industries HQ Reception, Cerevis City, the Moon[/B]

Being greeted by a text-to-speech program was a bit disorienting, even if she'd known it would happen beforehand. Sadb couldn't lie about that. People usually either spoke with an actual voice or used sign language. Not via a PDA. Admittedly, her ability to recognise signs wasn't exactly up to scratch, but despite TTS being more for her benefit than the girl's (it would be killer on her fingers to keep typing on that thing for extended periods of time), it was still sort of unnerving. There was no point however, putting herself in a tizzy just because of the manner Hazel Ada Stoll was communicating to her in. She had one job right now, and that was ... correcting the mistaken assumption.

"I'm, um, actually Federation Intelligence," she said sheepishly, rising to her feet and holding out a hand for Hazel to shake. "There ... won't be any Mao Industries staff attending this meeting, sorry."

She had daydreamed of working for Mao Industries once or twice. All their operatives and workers seemed like they were on top of their game, which was more than she could say for the rest of her branch. They were just too lacking in professionalism; if Ring Mao hadn't left the Federation Army for the life of a corporate executive and was instead working in Intelligence, then any branch she found herself in charge of (like hopefully Sadb's in this hypothetical yet impossible scenario) would be brimming with the best agents who weren't irresponsible and prone to sloth. She mentally sighed. It was a nice dream, but her only escape was a transfer request, and it was pretty unlikely that she'd quit to join up with an arms company.

For one, it was on the Moon.

If God was smiling on her, then once this meeting was over and done with, she could head straight back to Earth to breathe in actual air in a place where there was an actual sky. Instead of being stuck in Cerevis City with its lack of stuff to do and general nonexistence of blue things above them.

"Is this the rest of your team?" asked the Intelligence agent, her eyes glancing slightly away from Hazel to look behind the girl at any other Federation pilots who were piling in through the doors.