The next morning they both woke up almost simultaneously, finding themselves in a gigantic bed, that could easily accommodate 8 to ten more people.
The whole bedroom module was very luxurious which explained its price of 2 million credits.
It was also fully furnished, with the kingsize bed, the nightstands, a snack and drink cabinet, which was empty for now, and the full set of bedding made from some sort of soft and silky material.
However, no matter how big the bed was, they still embraced each other.
Getting out of bed, Andrew had a hard not looking at Aelita.
She surprised him the night before by wearing the night gown she bought for herself, it was a green, knee-long gown made mostly of some kind of semi-transparent material except for the important places.
He almost forgot to breathe when he saw her wearing it.
With the girl's natural beauty and this alluring nightgown, she looked sexy as all hell.
It took all of his willpower to stop himself from taking her then and there, and it didn't help when she hugged him in bed.
That night Andrew had a hard time sleeping, thinking about the enticing beauty right next to him.
In the morning he also had to control himself, and she seemed to know what was going on and loved the attention.
The Human almost went wild when the sexy alien kissed him on the lips before going to take a shower.
He was thankful she did or he might have really lost control of himself and his tent was the best proof of that.
The shower was his savior this time as the cold water washed away his desires and let him return to normal.
Aelita on the other hand was very satisfied with his reaction as her goal was to get him to mate with her.
From the moment he became her protector he did everything she could have asked for and more to make her happy, which resulted in her falling in love with him.
It didn't hurt that his body was getting more and more in shape and in her eyes he was already handsome to begin with.
The only problem was that in her culture, it was always the protector who initiated the intimacy so she either had to wait patiently or force him to take the initiative.
Fortunately, she had five friends who were more than happy to provide her with some ideas.
Even though neither of them ever tried to seduce a human before, their species were similar enough that their advice was almost identical.
The only one that refrained from giving her advice was Lanarine, who stated that she was only good at pissing him off and since she also never had a partner, she had no experience to share.
Knowing that Andrew would most likely hit the fitness module like usual, she put on sports shorts and something resembling a tight T-shirt and planned to join him there.
She was right and he was working out with the help of dumbbells when she entered the module.
He was again surprised at her provocative outfit and almost dropped the weight on his foot as a result.
-I thought, I'll join you.
She said with a smile.
-Why not, I recommend the gym bike for your first try.
He said after taking a deep breath to calm himself down.
-Which one is it?
She asked, looking around over the equipment.
Andrew showed her which one it was and how to use it.
The girl hopped on and started paddling just like he instructed her, but she quickly realized that it was much harder than she initially thought.
Not wanting to discourage her, he set the device for the easiest training program and left her to it, while he went to the punching bag, turning his back to her as this was the only way for him to avoid being distracted by her.
While he was focused on the punching bag, he also used the time to think as if something was wrong with Aelita.
Usually, she was reserved and quite shy, but lately, she has become quite bold and he would rather not think about her outfits.
There was something amiss about this whole situation, people don't change this drastically without a reason, or the influence of someone else.
Thinking about it, he was almost certain that it was the work of the other station masters, but he could not see the goal behind it.
-What could they possibly gain from all of this?
He thought.
At first, he didn't want to read through her chat with the other station masters, but if they had so much influence over her, he needed to figure out what were they after, and the only way to do that was to read the chat logs.
After a few more minutes of thinking about it and punching the bag, he decided to get to the bottom of the situation, and the sooner the better.
-I'm done for today.
He said to the girl who was having a hard time on the gym bike.
-When you finish the program, the divide will turn itself off.
Aelita could only nod as she was breathing too heavily, to speak right now, but she refused to quit before she finished the program.
That might cause Andrew to have a bad impression of her and it was the last thing she wanted right now.
He went to get a quick shower before going to the command center and opening the chat logs.
He had around 30 minutes, to figure out what was going on before Aelita finished the program.
Reading through the ladies' gossip as fast as he could, finally he got to the part where Aelita, complained about his lack of interest in bed activities.
This surprised him a lot as she was always the reserved and shy one so he was always playing the gentleman, trying to make her happy.
Evidently, it was not the way to go, judging from the chat, and what surprised him even more was that all the ladies except for Lan, started to give her advice and ideas about the ways to seduce him and she listened to them as he just experienced.
To his surprise, one of the ladies was a doctor and Aelita must have sent her their scans, to confirm if their biologies were similar enough to actually mate.
The medic responded that she was not entirely sure right now but from the data, it looked like they were 86% compatible and they both had the necessary parts to do the deed.
This pissed him off a bit as medical data could be used against him, however after thinking about it, he was sure that the girl didn't want to hurt him and just wanted to know if they could have sex without any issues so he let it slide.
Besides, he also got to know that all the ladies were above 70% compatible with him, which was a surprise since they all belonged to different species.
What really pissed him off, was their gossip about him, and he doubted that any man could take such comments lying down as this was a direct attack on his pride.
Sentences, like: "Maybe he's just not man enough" or " He might be afraid that he can't satisfy you" and more, made his blood boil.
No man could take it, and if he ever got the chance, he would show them that he was more than man enough to make them scream for mercy.
Additionally, even Aelita joined in on the fun, but luckily for her, the comments she added were less offensive and she even tried to defend him a bit.
He was however surprised at the entry from the time he was in the fitness module alone.
-She must have come here before joining me for the workout.
He mumbled to himself.
It read: Thank you all for the advice, it's working.
You should have seen his face when he saw me in the nightgown.
I'm going to try out the gym clothes you all recommended, wish me luck.
The message was followed by a short string of good luck and similar messages from the other station masters.
There was much more information in the chat that could be useful for him as it turned out that these women talked about everything and the chat turned out to be an intelligence gold mine.
Unfortunately, he didn't have time to read anything more since Aelita just came to the command center.
Thankfully, she was wearing her usual outfit this time, or he might have proved to her that he was more than capable of satisfying her.
Seeing her come in he immediately turned off the chat logs, to hide that he knew everything and he was also a bit worried that she would get angry at such a breach of privacy.
Aelita was exhausted, after finishing the program on the gym bike and it showed.
-Did you set up the hardest program by accident?
She asked seeing Andrew in the command chair, looking at the progress in the drone production.
-No, that was the easiest one, the only one that is even easier is to go without the program and on the lowest setting.
He explained.
-Have you forgotten that gravity compensator only works on your body and not your surroundings?
He asked with a grin.
His words just reminded her that he was from a much higher gravity world and she could live normally on this station only thanks to the bracelet she wore.
She sat at the communication console with a painful moan as he body hurt from the workout.
Andrew was sure that she would share her experience with the other ladies, but he could always check it later, for now, he had to focus on the research he needed to get as the chat also revealed that one of the ladies was a fleet commander on her planet and she was doing her best to create a fleet.
In the chat, she stated that it was for defense only, but if she got a fleet, then she could more or less conquer the whole system in a matter of hours.
Fortunately, she seemed to not understand how much resources and effort it took to build even a small fleet and was still stuck in the thinking too small mindset.
This gave him a chance to catch up to her since she had already done two of the necessary researches and was in the process of gathering materials for the next one.
Not to mention that she was operating only one research module for now.
Without wasting any time Andrew started on the first research since it didn't require many resources and he had enough for it.
The research was giving him also an upgrade for his drones since it was engine research and it would be completed within 6 hours.
With that done he did the math, to see when he would be able to start the next research which was the combat control module and it was a pricey one requiring him to gather 15,000 tonnes of resources to start.
That was almost a quarter of his total capacity right now, but once all the new drones were produced, he would get it in a matter of hours or a day at most.
Once he had that he would be on par with the fleet commander station master and soon after that he would take the lead.
The plan was to create his own fleet before any of the ladies could and then conquer the whole system, preferably, by making all of them submit to him, since he didn't want to kill Aelita's friends and there was this little matter of proving to them just how wrong they were about him.
He grinned evilly at the last part of his plan.
Just as he was grinning all the ladies had a shiver go down their spines.