Lana reported to Blip once again and let him know the progress. It could be months before the need of the earth users was over. She was also in a position where she felt she would need to be picky about which houses to furnish since she had the bigger buildings yet to put in. The travelers' center would be expensive because the medical center would be on the second floor. She felt that should be next to make meals easier then continue the perimeter. Which meant she needed to figure out how to put in her traveler's center.
This was what she really wanted to discuss with Blip so she got all the particulars in what went into his. After talking to him, she realized she should put her medical center on the second floor of the training center and make the traveler's center like a restaurant with tables and chairs for them to sit, eat, talk and discuss quests. She didn't want most abilities to be tried in her trees anyway. She really wanted the training center to be martial arts and beast weapons. The rest could be done underground. She also asked Blip what would happen if she registered two king tier crystals. He confirmed her thoughts.
"So essentially, I could be a B-rank right now but I can't register it or I would lose my crystals."
Blip nodded, "If you earned two then you are a B, not a maybe. How close are you be being able to set yourself up?"
She told him what Logan said about her communications system. She wanted that up before moving. She preferred to have her teleportation system but it was not required. She needed a way to update and communicate with specific people. She was even willing to work a deal where the earth users were temporarily transferred to her then returned once the job was done to reduce all the travel.
"Another question," she took a deep breath, "a few days into next week I hit my second trimester. Since I have the crystals to hit B, can I have permission to travel with my team for support purposes only at this point? I can provide healing while they work on getting stronger."
"Done. Let's get to our morning briefing."
Lana smiled and agreed.
She updated her team and Quinn wanted to keep doing what they had been doing.
Lana wasn't going to complain about it. She updated him on what happened minus the king tier. She informed him this would be her last week in combat. She would be just support after this and he had mixed feelings on that. He was happy she'd be safe but knew how much getting stronger meant to her.
The next three weeks went much the same way.
Three weeks later the perimeter was complete. She had the training center and the travelers' center in, 87 2-bedroom houses and 19 40-foot houses were all fully ready. Two more 80-foot houses were built but not furnished yet. She was down to just over 200,000 credits. She went to report to Blip that she needed the earth users for another month and wanted to know if she could just keep them for that duration then return them when the job was done but he was having a meeting. She decided to come back later and head to the travelers' center.
She ran into Sam there who was hanging out with Quinn. Sam informed her where Dilly and Rene were so she contacted them asking if they wanted to join her. Dilly responded immediately with a yes. Rene responded the same about 10 minutes later. She informed them both she would let them know when she could come get them.
Lana really needed Dilly. While she could still get into her clothes, she had a bit of a baby pouch showing. She and her team really needed to have a sit-down preferably with Quinn.
By this time, Blip, Linda, Nate and two others she didn't know but were always there with them appeared on the short platform used as a stage. Apparently, an emperor tier and two king-tiers had been located and they were tasked to go kill them in two teams. A and B ranks were to go to the emperor tier. C and D were to go after the king tiers. Lana wanted her people in on this so she registered all seven of them to go. Quinn did as well. The guy leading the group was an idiot and was going to get them all killed. Sam called him out on his stupidity. The idiot refused to listen to Sam and Quinn reminded Kong that these lives were in his hands and his decisions had a direct effect on them. He broke the big group into two with Lana's team on one and Quinn's team on another. Each team was given a tracking device to tag the beast with if they saw it.
Their team did find one that was asleep. They simply watched over it. Eventually it woke up and ran away. Someone called it in on the communications system. They were all ordered to return to the base.
Each team had lost someone and a few days of mourning were called. All quests were at a standstill. Lana got permission to borrow the earth users and had them pack immediately. She called her ship then went shopping for snacks. She updated Quinn and he was preparing to go as well. He was going to go get Alex which made Lana happy. She could use his skills as well once her funds were restored.
As soon as it was dark, she took everyone to their shelter, rather, Dobin piloted the ship. Lana slept the whole way as usual. This time, though, she gave instructions. She booted up her faction system for the first time. Transferred everyone over and hit the button to have Blip approve it. She then put in her crystals and her tag changed to B. Before letting her team go to bed, she asked if they wanted higher positions in her faction and or family. If so, their homes may change and they needed to think on that before personalizing their houses. She also still needed to purchase the market system for the regular people to be put in the travelers' center, which she promptly did.
Lana then informed her team she had some people to go pick up. She was leaving Dobin in charge while she was gone for now. Back on her ship, she called Rene who was the furthest away. Rene said she could not get permission to leave even though she was rank C. She was with the military even though she didn't want to be but she had nowhere to go. She was tasked with finding crystals which put her in the traveler ranking system.
Lana thought that didn't make sense. The military should not be able to stop her. A call to Oscar was made.
After only a few moments, Rene was given permission to leave. Lana had called him a few times but the conversations were never long. It was mainly to let him know she had started her construction and her progress in getting stronger.
With Rene able to leave, Shalt, Caser and Lana headed her way. Lana told her to go ahead and get packed and be ready. It took some time to get to her because they had to go through the transport centers to go to another galaxy. Humans were in fact in three different galaxies at this point so these transfer stations were required to travel that far. There was always a line to go through as well. Eventually it was their turn and they went through.
A few hours later, they found the planet in question and it was instantly understood why Rene was so willing to join her. This was an ice planet. Lana and Shalt were not dressed for this place but they were in luck that Rene was standing there, shivering and ready. They briefly hugged. A soldier came out and informed Lana she had some paperwork to fill out to transfer Rene over which she gladly did. Another hour later, and they were cleared to leave.
Lana introduced Shalt after they left. Rene had never met Caser before either so that was in interesting introduction. Caser smiled at her with teeth showing a small bit and Rene thought she'd end up on the menu. Lana had to explain he only ate beasts. That made her calm down.
The next order of business was sleeping. There was only one bed and three people needed rest. They decided to head toward where Dilly was but would not make it there before they got too tired. They would not even make it to the transfer station.
Rene was technologically inclined and looked at the planets nearby. She found one that had a much nicer climate and contacted them to see if they had facilities for travelers to spend the night. She explained they needed sleep and their ship was just a transport.
They were given clearance and within the hour, they were landing.