So, the kid had some kind of plan. It wasn't necessarily much, but she couldn't blame him. Sometimes, that was all you could do. Team up with the Vyexul, huh? Well, yeah, that was a better bet than trying to do it alone. And if he didn't plan on endangering her people or station, that must mean, "so once you go to take care of your business, you won't be back." That wasn't exactly her favorite kind of farewell, but it was what he'd have to do.

"Well, Ascot, we do have a job board that Vortex manages. She basically runs the whole station, I just tell her what to do when she needs instruction. I'll have her set your home terminal up with access. Merchants who want to take shortcuts often want for an escort."

A holoprojector sprang to life in the middle of the table, displaying a recent job posting. As escort request, with a picture of the ship in question. They wanted to go past the planet nearby, but we're nervous to run into the pirates that liked to hang out on the near side of the planet.

"Ah, looks like she's got something for you. How's the maintenance, Vortex?" The display moved, another screen coming up and going over a summary of repairs. Serenity gazed through it as the list scrolled past, picking out a few items and pushing them aside to look at later.

"Looks like she's just about done. Aaah~, she's quick." She was as much satisfied with Vortex's work as she was with herself for building her. "We'll pick up your mech from my hangar."

She had also not taken long to finish her meal. Since she was the station master, the diner would be paid automatically, as Vortex always watches her. "We can pick up your mech from my hangar. Let's go."

Serenity would lead the lad through residential to a security door in a secluded area, "it took years to build all this. Once I got a system set up for ordering my drones to build based on my blueprints, things got moving a lot faster." The door to her private section of the station. She'd made it luxurious, and it was where her private workshop and hangar were. They stepped through the door and onto a scenic bridge crossing over to the manufacturing block. They'd exit the bridge into a small lobby, where she led him to an elevator and called it to go down.