I received the latest budget report, and am pleased that Moff Daetin is apparently interested enough in Lord Zamir's implants to pledge the capital we need to begin research. While the Division has its own resources, this additional funding should please both the Darths. I find it interesting how anything that might produce a faster, stronger soldier or will explode people faster has the military eager to fund it. Meanwhile Intelligence quietly sends us credits for anything that might help them interrogate prisoners. But, I'm digressing.
I am awaiting the prototypes from Zamir, though we've already begun recruiting potential subjects. Unlike Tholgeth's research, which required importing several dozen Imperial prisoners (mostly political), we can take a bit more care in who participates. For initial testing I'd prefer a pool of humans without mixed alien blood. If those tests are successful, we can extend trials toward mixed blood and aliens if budgeting allows.
It's a much more pleasant experiment and I've put the word out to the military first, soldiers are always eager to become better soldiers.
I also have a bit more editing to do for previous research projects before they can be published. But that I can do on the side, perhaps in the evenings. I am uncertain if Darth Tholgeth wishes to have his personal toys published anywhere, but I have a report on that started as well, which I will send to him on completion.
One of the lab techs has been acting oddly lately. I will have to keep an eye on him, and have restricted his access to research data until I have a chance to talk to him. But I've caught him more than once lingering near my office, as if waiting for me to leave. Paranoia has set in, and so I've made sure I have holocams turned on and watching when I'm not in.
Things with Genna have taken an unexpected turn. We see each other when we can, which is not as often as either of us would like. But, we have the huttnet and our own communicators to talk when not busy. She's busy training, and I'm neck deep in research and we both understand the constraints on the other.
But, she finally had her first sexual experience as an agent (and I think it was her first time, period, which makes me wince). I saw her hinting at it on the huttnet with Agent Kindrak. There wasn't any need to make her explain it to me. I knew this was a possibility (inevitable really), and I think the only level it bothers me on is that she is obviously bothered by it.
And I think part of her is just a little frustrated with me that I seem unwilling to sleep with her. A little amusing, even if it shouldn't be, and flattering at the same time. It isn't that I wouldn't want to, I'm quite male thank you and I've thought about it more than once.
But Genna is not a job, or a duty, or a mark. And I hesitate to take our relationship to that level until I'm certain both of us understand that, and are ready for it. We aren't just Imperial citizens, we're agents of the Empire, and our duties to that Empire will always be first.
She understands that now, I think. We had a long discussion about it. She's changing, bit by bit. The gawkish girl I first met is slowly coming to understand Imperial culture. You can see it in her eyes, no longer wide and easily hurt, there's a dawning comprehension and a sharpening intellect.
Emperor help her targets, in a few years I daresay she'll be a fine, deadly agent of the Empire.
