The sleek black craft was on the outer edges of the Sol system, its dimmed cabin lights the only clear visible sign of it against the blackness of space. Inside a pair of figures sat at the controls. Wraith's metal fingers tapped at controls while his brother was lounging in the other chair, idling pet a cat in his lap. "So did we really need to get a pet?" Jack asked before giving a yawn that the cat soon copied.
"Every time you ask that something bad seems to end up happening," Wraith responded, fingers not slowing as he typed at keys, "And feel free to sleep, we're doing a wide system scan with the advanced sensors, it will take a while."
"Yeah, isn't it like twenty hours for one of those? Why do we have to sit out here and do one now?"
"Actually Jack, it's ten hours, I got those upgraded."
"Oh, about time for that. I mean, how long had we been looking to get that done?"
"Yeah, talk about it like it's easy. We had to find someone with the right expertise, knowledge, and able to do it with out sticking a bunch of things on the outside of the ship. You know that's hard to find, even with some of the places we frequent."
"Couldn't get some real shields on here too though, could ya?"
Wraith paused a moment before typing at controls again, "I'm sorry, I really have no desire to stick a huge pod on the ship with a bright red label 'shield generator, shoot for a big boom."
"You just don't want to make a bigger ship"
"This thing is a classic you know. Can't improve on its design, besides the armor works better than any normal shields for any ship in its size range."
Wraith looked over after a moment of not hearing a response, just to see his brother asleep in the chair with the cat curled up in his lap.
