Recent content by Carrick

Holding no love for the Empire, Sith or not, Carrick wished them a long and terrible slide into first mediocrity and then into a decline so steep and so total that he could watch it crash and burn while enjoying his retirement. He also, absolutely, agreed that the Sith were still running the...

Carrick hadn't set foot in a building to discuss matters of the Galactic senate for quite some time - as a vocal opponent to the whole thing, he had thought it better to merely stop attending all but the most vital of sessions. Sometimes he thought he ought to attend more often. Some of his...

Carrick was probably not the most welcome party to most of these meetings these days - he was a symbol of the ISC's military-industrial complex and he was damn proud of that fact. It gave him a lot of headaches and made him a lot of enemies but it was to be his mark on the history of the Galaxy...

She didn't immediately agree and that spoke volumes - it spoke well of her actually. Too many people would have thought about their end goal and ignored his rather blunt warning about the dangers and the pain that would come about from his forcing his way into her mind against her will. Even...

He honestly couldn't help himself. "My dear, I don't dress for the location - I dress for the company I keep." If he were not such a good politician and an, admittedly, charming man he probably would have had some HR cases on him at this point. Flirting brightly and openly with people was...

It seemed that he had passed some kind of tease because it was time for them to move on to the more pleasant and social aspects of his visit. He hadn't been expecting an invitation to dinner, however, and even as he stood to join her, Carrick couldn't help but look down at himself and smile a...

Opportunities needed to be seized with both hands. There was something to be said for caution but it had a nasty habit of forcing your goals out of your reach. His political career was beginning to wind down and he could see it. The war against the Sith had been both popular - and wildly...

Carrick paused for slightly longer than before, listening but also enjoying his drink. There was something relaxing about being able to philosophize without fear of angering someone or offending someone else or, worst of all, getting the press on his arse again. Of course, it could turn out that...

This wasn't the first time that someone had held him at blaster point but he had had the services of a Mandalorian woman at the time. There was something to be said about knowing that you had an armoured defender in your corner. Still, Carrick looked down at the blaster before looking back up at...

Carrick, personally, didn't much care if she needed to kill someone in self-defence but the image of it would be awful. Unless she managed to find herself in some part of a warzone, he wouldn't think that the PR department would be able to do much to cover it up either. Still, he left her alone...

Amused, Carrick didn't respond verbally but the small little smirk probably told her enough about whether or not he had gotten the joke, such as it was. Of course, he was her boss so he was going to ensure that there was a degree of separation there, a little aloofness that was required to be an...

Reasonable deductions rather than attempting to guess or admitting that she didn't know without at least trying to make an educated guess. That was good but he would have preferred it if she had done more research into where she would be conducting a lot of her work - not that it could be...

Well thank the Force he hadn't been given one of those softer new generation types who could barely program their droid pilot to get them to the right coffee fly-through in the morning. He himself was an adequate pilot but he didn't enjoy the action - it was a means to an end for him so if she...

There was something in her expression when he mentioned that he would be willing to fund the research as a longer term product - he supposed there were limits to the patients of academic circles before they changed their minds and pulled funding. Not altogether surprising considering the budget...

Damn. It was, apparently, too much to hope that they might only be a short push away from bringing the technology into the smaller craft market. Because it had always been a longshot, he wasn't too upset so instead he merely hummed a little bit and made a mental note to himself. Still, it was a...