When Dani asks for him to 'show his stuff', it took everything for him to keep his hands above his waist, but he couldn't hide his smirk, no matter how hard he tried to keep a stoic face. He blinked and the guards were down.

Jeff would casually adjust his sleeves as he'd step over the bodies towards Lady Smythe. "They're just taking a light nap, my lady." He'd offer her his hand. "Shall we?" He'd give a charming wink and smile.

Deception/persuasion: 8 (same mod)

Dani picks up her flash heater and examines it to see how much functionality is left...not much. She shrugs and slips it into her pocket. "We're taking over your station, is the meaning of this. Now if you feel like making this a little easier and more bloodless, get us on a commlink and order your people to surrender."

Still fuming, Lady Smythe leads you to the stations' telecommunications array and broadcasts a message to the station. "This stations is now under the control of the crew of the Reclaimer. Do not attempt to resist, for your sakes. We are outnumbered and outgunned."

Toni moves over to Lady Smythe, “have them gather in the main room. I want to address your people.”

Toni stands before the people of tide star rock. She stands arms behind her back, chest out back straight chin up, “Hello. My name is Captain Toni. Me and my crew, the Reclaimer and the...other ship, name to be decided, have taken control of this station. Now, we are not murderers we don’t aim to commit senseless killing. You have a choice: you can either get into the modes of transportation you already have and can leave this place unharmed, OR you can join my crew and maintain the same jobs and way of life you had before, with me and my crew in charge instead of Lady Smythe. If you attempt to fight us or try and retake this station...” at this she will unsheathe her magma blade holding it out towards the assembled room, it’s molten heat radiating off the blade shining white hot light. “Then we will be forced to defend our new home.You will be treated with respect and paid for your work as normal if you choose to remain.  What do you say? Will you join us?”

Most of the guards mill about silently in response to your offer, unsure of whether to take it or not. The chief of security with the salt-and-pepper beard steps forth. "And what of Lady Smythe? What are your plans for her? Do you intend to kill her? Keep her around for your amusement? Ransom her off to the highest bidder?"

Toni looks to the security chief, “thank you for the question. She gets the same offer that you all get. What is your name?”

"I did offer my hand as a dance partner." Jeff would blurt. Catching himself, he'd grin widely and wink. Although, he really did leave the context blank... but that's half the fun! He did treat her with respect and no ill intent.

"Sergeant Royster McCleagh." In response to your statement, Lady Smythe steps up and speaks. "I will return home to Verces and be with my family. The rest of you are free to do as you like, but I advise you not to throw your lives away fighting these pirates." After that, she moves to leave and find one of the ships stationed here so that she can leave. About 60% (12) of her men leave with her, but 40% (8) stay.

Dani nods as the eight people stay. "Okay, each of you head over to Gin there and tell her what you did on this station and what your skills are. We'll keep you in the same job if you want to stay there, or reassign you to a different one you're suited for if you'd prefer." She points out Gin. "I'm going to go let the crew know that we've taken the rock and what the conditions were so we can start moving in. Arc, I want you to do a patrol around the station to determine its defensibility and security risks. Report what you find to Toni and I once you finish." The quartermaster heads off down the hall to where they docked their ships.

"I'mma shadow the robot!" Jeff chimes.

(Offering help.)

"Affirmative." Arc gave a small salute to Dani prior to her walking off, and turned to look at Jeff who asserted himself to help, "Your help is noted. Thank you."

If no other commands or actions occurred towards Arcade, he'd then continue along his ordered path of patrolling every passage in the station, compiling a mechanical and strategical analysis.

Toni nods to herself after everything shakes out, personally seeing off those who were leaving. Afterwards she will tour the station, a bit dreamy eyed, still in shock with how quickly their assets had grown from the last few weeks. The Lashunta Captain eventually finds herself by the ships, hearing Dani hard at work getting everything in tip top shape. “How are you holding up with all this new stuff?”

Dani beams at Toni. "This is amazing. So much better than life before I ran-uh, I mean, left. Home," She amends quickly. "Completely and totally openly and with everyone's blessing." She flushes, realizing she's making it worse, and quickly changes the subject. "And there's so much stuff to work with here! I've never been able to work on a ship so continuously, never mind a whole station! Nobody poking their head in trying to tell me what I should be doing instead, nobody cares what I'm wearing, and when I tell people to do things, they just do them." She grins. "It's like a dream come true."

Toni laughs, "I'm glad. You seem to be right where you should be. I'm glad to have you on our team, especially..." She leans forward, hand near her mouth like she's telling a secret, "Because I'm not very good at thinking through problems, or knowing about tech stuff. And that seems to be most of what we've been doing." She returns to an upright position, "Anyways... Just let me know if you need anything, and I will...captain stuff for you.....uh..ok...bye!" and she turns on her heel and walks several steps before she stops dead in her tracks, "Wait..." she turns around, "Are you a runaway????" she stares directly into Dani's soul through her eyes.

"Well, I'm great at thinking through problems and tech stuff, and horrible at talking and captain stuff, so we make a good team." Dani grins.

When Toni stops and looks at her, the young woman flushes deeply, looking a little embarrassed. "Uhhhh....oh **** it, I'm a terrible liar," she grumbles. "Yeah. My mom still probably has a missing persons file out on me. And a private investigator or three..." she adds under her breath.

Toni nods, "Thank you for your honesty. We will keep an eye out, since I wouldn't want them to take away the Director of Engineering for Tidestar Fleet, after all." She'd give a thumbs up.

Dani beams. "Thank you very much, Commodore." She grins and goes back to making adjustments to the engine.

Gin waves enthusiastically a the new crew mates when Dani points her out to them. The lashunta takes out her glitter pen and notepad and gets ready to write down names and jobs, just as she did before.

"YOUR name is Tony too?! No, no, we can't have that." She proclaims with a huff. So many damn Tony's. "Couldn't your parents think of another name for you?! Like John or... Jesus or even Jose! Jeesh. Whatever, you're now gonna be Big T, since we already got a Lil' T!" The bard gives a glare over to the others she hasn't written down yet. "If there are any other Tony's out there, speak up now or forever hold your peace."

When she is done, she skips on over to her sister (when she wasn't busy talking or doing something else), and shows her the notebook. "All updated for you cap'tn!"

"I'm noted!" Jeff would follow Arc uncomfortably close, hovering and sauntering, getting a feel for this patrolling thing. He'd occasionally hum, blow a raspberry or pop his lips. He may not look like it, but he is looking around and familiarizing himself with stuff, and things.

Arc: In addition to the long range laser cannons and short range turrets, you find that the station has a long range radar system, a rather robust set of forcefields and an automatic alarm system that goes off whenever there's an unauthorized entry. If there is a security risk, it's that there's nothing to stop hostiles that possess some means of teleportation, magical or automated, from using that to break into the station.