Listening to Sonja talk about the limited funds available she felt a bit sorry as she remembered meeting with Med Force Enterprises on several occasions. Fine folks who are non-confrontational and always do their best to provide care and aid to those in need. "How come the nice people who do good things throughout the sector never seem to be short on finances?" And that question was answered instantly as she remembered her meeting with one of the MFE doctors. "Oh shoot, what was her name again?" she thought as the cat jumped of her lap to get some approval of her affection to Lulatia from Sonja...
Her trying to think of who at MFE she spoke to was interrupted by another memory of a former classmate she knew. One who started his own finance firm a coupple of years ago... And that memory quickly became a solid idea... "Yes, that may work out, I'm pretty sure Martin can help out with this one yet I should also ask for a favor from the DSE board of directors."
She took a sip from her tea as she pondered on what she could tell Sonja. While this could work out she needed to be openly clear about her ideas on this from the get-go... "Sonja, I know the great work Med Force does yet, while not having the DSE engineers have a look at the latest tech records of your vessel I can only say you are looking at anything from 100 to 300 million." and with that she noticed a slight hint of fear in Sonja's eyes so she quickly added... "Yet, I have an idea which may serve us both well so what I propose is this..." Lu moved her chair a little closer to Sonja and with that Nikki once again jumped on her lap as she continued...
"You see, as DSE I can give you a discount yet it will only shave off a mere 10 percent of the total cost of the construction and upgrade of your ship." she paused for a moment to let this sink in and she could see Sonja was running the numbers in her head so she quickly added... "Yet an old friend of mine runs a private finance firm, you may or may not have heard of Sirius Finance but I'll have a word with him and see whether he can help you out with this. Now I can't make any promises but knowing him it may be a good idea if you and him have a chat."
And as she finished her tea she added...
"Sonja, I will do my best for you yet I hope you understand that I also work for a corporation and one which makes expenses and needs to pay it's personnel. Yet having said that I will do my best for you and Med Force and I suggest you leave your vessel at the shipyard for a detailed inspection while you can borrow one of our transports in the meantime. The inspection should take no longer than 48 hours so all I can say is that you stay close to Liberty Space."
And with that and the empty tea-glass in her hand she looked at Sonja for her response...