Research and Development

After finishing talking to the Captains, we sent them away to gather their things, and Kelly sighed, "I am going to have to deal with that High elf." She complained, "You just had to make him the only one not to get a job."

I chuckled, "That is exactly his problem, and tell him that for all I care. He came across as an incredibly pompous asshole that did not deserve to work for us. He felt entitled to our compensation package instead of being ecstatic to get something great from us. Now, let's move on," I told her bluntly. "Now, The research team. We have that girl that we will need to smuggle out if she is going to come with us, correct?"

"Yup, want me to send her in now?" Kelly asked.

"Absolutely," Ura said.

"Right away," Kelly replied, and a couple of seconds later, the door opened up, and a woman with Very Large Breasts came in. The Suit that she was wearing was struggling to contain her breasts, and the picture we were shown did not do justice. She was still not as large as Ura, but she definitely tried to be in that region. The White shirt buttons seemed to strain but never would pop, and her cleavage was on display. The black jacket made her look both professional and lewd as she came in with black suit pants that fit perfectly on her. She was a smart woman; I could tell she had no idea if it was a man or woman she was interviewing. I could see her almost click her tongue.

I could respect that motivation. She really wanted to work off the planet. "Hello, I am Bell, Bell Grave, a Human with a quarter to an eighth Cat-kin, not that it shows at all, really. I went to school for Robotics engineering and graduated in the top three in my class. I have a bunch of drawings and things I would love to work on if you give me a lab off this planet."

"Hello, Bell, I am SleepyWonder. We are a galactic shipping company that runs with bounty hunters," I said bluntly. "We are starting with little funding, but I would like to start up a portion of our company for future proof, shall we say." I began.

"You want to start making weapons and various things for Bounty Hunter's weaponry. Custom Weaponry and Robotics would make excellent small arms to capture, maim, or kill bounties while giving your people an edge. You are also talking to me because I am in the bargain, I don't say, and you don't have the money to pay me what I am worth, and rather frankly, getting me off the planet will be expensive." Bell cut in, and I nodded.

"You are smart, and I like you." I said, "You are absolutely correct. But I think you underestimate us. We are confident in getting you out of here. My question is about the contract we set." I said bluntly, "We can't pay much and fund too much in the early parts."

Bell had the largest smile now, "You can get me off this fucking planet; sign me up. As for funding, give me a million fed credits to work with. I have an idea to make more credits, and we can set up a small factory to make them. We can sell them on the open market and use that to start funding my other studies."

"Oh? Please do tell," I asked, leaning back.

"Perfectly, So I have had nothing but time to think and plan while doing math. I have been stuck on the planet, hoping for someone to take me off of it. I have had family come through to save me from the streets, but I hate being a burden on them, and the fucking Fed-" She cut herself off, "Look, I ripped the gonads off a rapist fuck in school, and his daddy did not like that I ended their genetic line in the normal way. Fucking prick deserved it, and I don't regret my actions. But I have been stopped from getting work. So, I planned out a small drone that could hold thirty times its weight, and I think I could set up a factory to produce in mass. All I need is to make a working model since I am too poor and cannot purchase the materials, and from a working prototype that concludes that I am right, we can go to the factory building. I have a bunch of other ideas, but this thing is small and versatile. Want to do a ten-round one with a ten-round clip that shoots at whatever your gun does? It can do that. The biggest problem is that I only have basic coding and artificial intelligence. Open-sourced code that is prone to hacking. So, if you can get your hands on an AI programmer, then we can create something truly dangerous for your people. Get me off this planet, and I will fucking fund myself with half the proceeds after cost." Bell stopped and took a deep breath, "Look, I am happy with the room, board, food, and research. Allow me a small budget to order things to whatever headquarters you make, and you will have a happy scientist. I need protection; I will not lie about it. Hiding me is the best, and I am happy to stay hidden."

"Okay, We will provide room, food, hygiene, a small wage, and a place for you to research. I will promise that a portion of whatever you create for us and put into mass production will be used to further develop research and development. A minimum of twenty-five percent will be sowed back to your research and development expenses. Depending on other factors, it can go as high as all of it if I think it is worth it.", I told her bluntly, and she smiled.

"Sign me up."

"Just to cut in, the thing about where she destroyed the kid's genitalia, it was more than that," Kelly said sternly.

"Yes, yes, in fact, I messed up his genetic code a little where doctors tend to take their samples, I hear, so the fucker will never have kids." She paused for a moment, "I might have also stopped them from any regrown part working with a little extra damage I did to the nerves around the area. Can we move on?"

"She did her best to make sure the kid never had children, even with his genetic code," Kelly added in, and I nodded.

"We will work out a contract and send it to you for you to sign. If you are right about your product, you will be a very happy woman with a large research budget." Bells' smile lit up the room, and she stood.

"Thank you," she bowed, showing us her massive cleavage. Then she departed, and I looked at Ura.

"I handled that well?" I asked after she left the room.

"I agree with you on your decision. I am already thinking about how to do what we need to do," Ura added.

"How are you-"

"That is none of your business," I told Kelly bluntly, much to her surprise. Now, we should move on to the next interview."

Kelly nodded, knowing when to stick to her business, and a moment later, the door opened, and a Bunny woman walked in. Her buck teeth were cute. She was a bipedal human with more features of a bunny than a human. She smiled, and it was adorable as she moved to sit down. It seemed she was wearing a lovely brown dress with no more than b-cup breasts and light brown, almost grey fur. She was a beautiful furry in my mind. "Nice to meet you. I am Berry Longfoot. I have a double major in chemical engineering. I have been living with my parents, who have grown increasingly annoyed with my experiments in the backyard, and I would love a formal lab and lab equipment to work on."

"Hello Berry. I am SleepyWonder," I said, noticing that I was taking control of the interviews. "I am a Bounty Hunter by trade, and this is the captain of the Delivery Corvette that we use to deliver goods around the galaxy. Now, we are looking to expand rapidly in ships and bounty-hunting services, and with that comes the need for research and development. But we don't have a lot of funds to allocate to that at the moment."

I could see her smile turn to a frown. "But after talking with a Robotics Engineer, we might have a better plan for you. If you don't mind me asking, Berry, what is your motivation?" I asked the question, and she froze only for a moment.

"I would like to experiment and make big explosives with small things. I want to make the biggest booms with the smallest bangs. I think it is a challenge and very interesting, and I think I have made some headway into that," Berry said bluntly.

"Berry, I am not going to lie and say we have a massive budget for you to work with. I am not going to say that we can pay you a lot. But I can bring you off the planet for a change in scenery; I can room you, feed you, give you a bit of spending money and a lot of freedom, and invest in the things that you come up with. Try to make the supply lines, and from the proceeds of whatever you invent, being company property, most of it will go back to fund your research and development. So everything you make will mostly be going back to fund more of what you want to do."

Berry had been frowning until the end, and she looked at me, shocked, her cute little mouth opening. Although it was hard to read her expression, I could see the shock in her expression. "So you are saying you will get to keep the patents, but you take all the risk, and for that, I get to spend a major portion of any profits to be made?" she asked, her excitement evident.

"Yes, I will guarantee that at least twenty-five percent of all profits will go back to funding research and development. That is after we get back our expenses for setting up the supply lines and factories to make the things you invent."

Berry leaned back and thought for a couple of moments, "If you are offering me the job, I will take it. I will negotiate pay when I show you the results. I can't continue to bother my parents forever," Berry said, standing up.

"Then I am glad to have you aboard, Berry!" I said happily, and Ura nodded.

"Perfect! I hope to see a contract soon!"

"We will send one to you as soon as we draft it," I replied. She nodded and started to skip out of the room, her feet almost making two leaps. 

"Well, she is a treat," Ura said. "She does not hide the fact that she will be negotiating later, though," Ura added.

"Bah, who cares? At that point, we offer her an extra five percent of what she invents with a max cap or something, and she will shut up. We will be paying her with what she invents! That is what companies in research and development do!" I replied, and Ura looked at me, shocked and then thoughtfully.

"Holy shit, you're right. They work for us, invent for us, then we use those inventions to pay them a small portion of it," Ura finished.

"We take the risk, though," I added. "We should move on. If that girl and the Engineer girl have things that go together, though," I said, and Ura nodded.

Next came a Goblin walking in, and I was expecting an ugly little short king. What we got was a beautiful Goblin with C-cup tits in a tube top and a blue blush on her face with matching short shorts that showed off her attractive Middrift. "Who are you?" Kelly asked.

"I- I am the Explosives Engineer Goblin, Greenhook Blinkers; I- I got surgery because I never felt being a man was my calling," The Goblin said, and I looked her up and down and was startled as I did not expect that Goblins could be so fucking hot. My cock was pressing against the armor right now. The curves were perfect, and she blushed under my intense stare.

"You should have notified us," Kelly said with an angry expression.

"I- I did not think I would get the adjustment until last week; I hated my male body, so my doctor allowed me to undergo Gender reassignment. So now I am a woman down to the genetic level."

"So what is your new name?" I asked, thrown off for a couple of moments.

"I am Jamie Blinkers. I am an explosives engineer, and I am—" She blushed. "I'm sorry. I was bad at interviews when I was male; now, I feel weird. I just want to make things go boom. I like making explosive devices, large and small. All of that is something I like. I would like a place that would allow me to be myself and research into that." The trans-Goblin blushed, and I looked at Ura.

With a Robotics engineer, a chemical engineer for propellant and Combustion properties, and an Explosives engineer, I could not help but wonder what her specialty was.

"What is your Specialty in school?" I asked bluntly, and she blushed,

"I didn't really have a specialty." Jamie blushed harder. "I don't excel in any one thing. But I was always the best at leading projects and direction because I understood everything. I have decent grades in all my courses but no specialty. Would you like to see some designs for products that I would like to research and develop?"

"Absolutely."

"Okay," Jamie said, pulling out a blue square and putting it on the couch she was sitting on. "Can I take control?" she asked Kelly, who nodded.

The screen was changed to various devices in the blueprint stage, and it was hard to understand them. "This is what I want to call the buzz boom." She began her blush growing more evident. "It is a small device that I would need the help of some other specialties to make, but it would use more common materials and be able to stack on itself. See the contours, which will allow you to carry more in less space, so it is more mobile. What do they do, though? Fly around to instructions and land where you want with a proximity setting before going boom. They buzz off, and boom."

I was now VERY interested.

"You have more?"

"I like booby traps A LOT. I like oversized explosives and traps, so this here is a spidermore." Jamie's aid and the figure of a spider came up. And it had eight legs and a thick, juicy body. "This moves into position, and it shoots out a string of python nanowire. It is basically invisible to the eye, infrared, and most software; then it turns into a Fragmentation Claymore that blows up in the direction set. That way, you can also manually shoot it by pulling the string yourself."

"Interesting. Well, Jamie, you did well; let me go over our issues and why you might not want the job." I began, and she nodded. I told her the same as the other two and where the funding would come from, and she jumped up and happily exclaimed that she was more than happy to work under those conditions. 

"I just want to make more things that go boom~! Oh, can I put the stipulation that I would like recordings from the bounty hunters that use my products under your employ so I can improve my work?" Jamie asked, her eyes shining with excitement.

"Sure."

"Perfect. If the contract shows what you told me, I would be happy to sign on with you. I can renegotiate my pay later when I have proven my worth."

"Absolutely. I hope you have a great day, Jamie; we will see you soon."

"Thanks~!" The now Female goblin smiled, waving before walking away, and Kelly sighed.

"I did not expect Trans Goblin today. After they learned to spot that issue back when people were babies." Kelly said and shook her head, "Sorry, moving on."

"That girl might be exactly what we need for your bounty hunters," Ura remarked, and I nodded.

"Yeah, you don't mind me taking control of the interviews?" I asked Ura again.

"Honestly, after the first round of interviews and hiring I did in the past, I am a little shy about doing it again," Ura replied, and a realization dawned on me. 

She hired pirates who almost enslaved her, and now she was a little shy about hiring herself, which was completely understandable. So we went on to all the junk confides that did not stand out as much. Interview after interview, I took the lead, asking about qualifications, and then I found one that had gone past our notice before.

It was a little Bunny boy like Berry but Male. He looked really meek and did not look like he could stand up for himself. But he was also an AI specialist, so I gave him a spot above assistant when he barely even talked during the interview, with a blushing face and stuttering out every word. It was adorable to watch but also sad. The Bunny Boy was extremely happy to take a job that took him away from people, and I started to notice that pattern.

As we finished going through the assistants for the research and development, we noticed that there was still outside that. "God, that took half the day," I said with a sigh.

"There were only two we did not pick up, although I was surprised that you took that Bunny boy who could barely speak," Ura said, and I shrugged.

"He was cute and clearly didn't know how to speak to women or stand up for himself. But he is an AI specialist, and he seems to be the only one in our current round of hiring." I replied, and I noticed Kelly was looking interested.

"Let's move on then," Ura said.

Next came a large Yellow-Skinned Orc with two large tusks. He came walking in and stood towering over us at over two meters tall and bulked with muscles. "I am Turock Yellowbone, a Logistics Manager, and I thank you for giving me time out of your day," the yellow-skinned orc introduced himself. "Please ask me any questions, and thank you for the opportunity."

"Absolutely, Turock," I said with a small smile at the over-formality and the fact that he was too large for the couch. "Turock, We are a delivery company, and the captains will have a lot of freedom in their choices to deliver," I told him and saw him wince, "But that is not what you will be working on if you get the job. If they do well, your job will be around setting up factories, supplies, and distribution of products made by our research and development team."

"So, is Turocks' job to facilitate a research lab?"

"Essentially, yes, And the factories that come from that."

"Turock finds this interesting; how about compensation?"

"This is where things start off tricky, Turock," I said slowly, "I am not going to lie; we are working with thin margins. We incentivized the staff with other benefits than more credits at this time. So we want to work with you. You get experience setting up a supply line; if everything takes off well, we will negotiate pay with you for more. But if things fail," I shrug, "AT least you will have the experience of setting up a supply line you can take to other companies."

"Turock agrees. You house Turock, you feed Turock, and Turock will do his best for minimal compensation. But if I succeed, I will be angry if you try to mess with me. Turock comes from a long line of Orcs. We are not weak, and family assists family." Turock replied, and I nodded.

"Fair enough; I will do my best for you, Turock," I replied honestly because we were really screwing these people over if we failed.

Turock nodded, "If the Contract is brought forth, I will sign. Turock has little choice." He finished. I flinched before he walked out, and I sighed.

"He was unhappy with the contract terms," I said bluntly.

"Can't blame him," Ura said, "They suck at this point for anyone other than the Captains of ships."

"Worse," Kelly said, "You are the only one who will give an Orc a chance on most days. So he is between a rock and a hard place."

"Yup, Bring in the next; I am starting to get tired of sitting here," I told Kelly, and she nodded.

Then came in a Fox girl that looked cute as fuck. She had modest breasts and was dressed in a kimono of some type with a large red tail coming out from the back, and she smiled as she came inside. Then, she took three steps and fell on her face with a yelp. And I noticed a socket of some kind showing, and Kelly sighed.

The girl then got up, scratched her face, and nodded before bowing. "I am Fefe Redriver. It's nice to meet you."

"Hello, Fefe. Did you read the job description?" I asked.

She nodded, "Yes, I am quite prone to accidents, so I thought it would be very interesting to try to put me in a health and safety position. But if I can walk around in a Factory, I think that place would be running perfectly," Fefe looked away, "I mean, I am so unlucky and clumsy; it has to work out that way, right?"

"So, did you bring your presentation on why we should hire you for this post?" I asked, and she nodded.

"Yes, thank you for giving me a chance. This might not be my specialty, but I realized I might be better at this than I thought. Here are some statistics: " Fefe began and started to go through game research and statistics that surprised me. Warehouse accidents are one of the leading causes of Employee deaths in the game world. It went over so many details and how dangerous things can be if they are not set up with safety in mind before they are finished being set up. She even went over some common practices, and she had me convinced by the end.

"I think we like you," Ura said, suddenly jumping in. "You convinced me. We will create this position and provide it to you. Now, about compensation," Ura said, looking at me, and I sighed internally.

We were going to be paying all of these people pennies compared to what they were actually probably worth. So I went down the list of Experience over credits, a place to eat and sleep, setting up factories, and various other things and she looked very intrigued.

"Overall, your compensation plan SUCKS," Fefe called out instantly, "But, I am not experienced, I have no experience, and if you had the money for someone experienced, I wouldn't have the chance. I will take your shit compensation package for now but renegotiate after a year max."

"Deal, we will send you a contract soon," I replied, and she nodded and got up to walk out. As she was walking out, the door jammed for a moment, and Fefe walked into it. I winced as the door finished opening for her. Fefe then walked through without further issue.

Then we continued with the rest of the interviews, which I was starting to lose my mind on. Person after person until we finally reached the end of the list and hired more than we probably should have to start. There was also a couple who told us no, and we shrugged it off. 

"I'm done," I said, my head spinning, "I can't do anymore. I'm hungry and cranky, and I need to get out of this room. We can continue tomorrow with the last of the interviews. We also have bounty hunters to pick up, but I am out of stamina for this shit. Thanks for your hard work, Kelly."

"They are-"

"Kelly, the next person who comes in is going to eat my fist if I have to do more interviews. Tell them we are exhausted," I told her, and she sighed.

"See you tomorrow then," Kelly said, and Ura got up with me, and we left.

I barely remember getting back to the ship and passing out to log out. God, I needed a break.

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