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Andraeus-7 looked up from his booth in the far corner of the Starfinder Cantina, where he sat alone except for five empty glasses of various shapes and sizes on the tabletop. Meaning to catch the attention of the waitress Krell, an attractive lashunta as far as he understood their physical beauty metric, he caught sight of a young Starfinder agent taking his comfort at the bar.
Flicking his eyes away from the young Starfinder when Krell called his name, he ordered his sixth and last libation for the evening. Shifting his gaze back to the bar he saw that Zach Rodchester, the name matching the face in the Starfinder database, was indeed a fellow member of the Society and a proud one too if the Wayfinder dangling from his neck was any indication.
Zach looked a little worse for wear as healing cuts and bruises were apparent on his face and hands. He had that "1000 kilometer stare" some members exhibited after particularly stressful missions. Andraeus-7 wondered what it was, what he had seen, to give him "the stare"? Andraeus then wondered if he had "the stare"? Certainly he had seen some new and from what his crewmates said were disturbing things. Mirroring the screen of his comm unit, he looked at himself in it, no, no stare that he could notice. It seemed his visual acuity and focus were functioning at their usual optimal levels.
Andraeus recalled the advice his Yoski friend, Fuzzy Lumpkins, gave him after a particularly bad mission,
"Andy, after something like that, you just got to get drunk, cut loose, and live it up so you remember that your still alive!"
While Andraeus did not see the point of drinking ones self in to non- functionality, the talk did inspire him to begin his current past time. Trying every libation on the exhaustive back shelves of the Starfinder Cantina. He was sampling six each night while he was between missions and so far was about one third of the way through. Thinking that Fuzzy's advice would suit Zach wonderfully, he pinged Krell so he could remain unseen, and ordered the young Starfinder a nice Glostruck from Vesk-3. While the favor did not excite his taste sensors it did have one of the highest intoxicant values of all his samples thus far.
Next he fed a few credits into the Cantina's entertainment system and not knowing Zach's preference for music he selected a random playlist from the groups, Strawberry Machine Cake, Abysshead, Dragon God of Love, and Veskarium Martial Marches Vol 27.
Finally, he began to peruse the socialator websites on the info sphere to see if he could find a biologically compatible companion for young Zach!
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As Andraeus perused the multitude of socialator websites on the info sphere he realized that he had no idea what combination of species, gender, physical beauty matrix, ect., would appeal to young Zach. Mating rituals of species were so complicated now a days he would just have to reveal himself to Zach and ask him directly.
Throwing back his last drink, a rather bland liquid distilled from mushrooms grown in the underground bunkers of Daimalko, Andraeus-7 stood up and walked toward the bar. Before he reached Zach, Andraeus activated the sub dermal Starfinder implant on the back of his right hand, causing it to become visible and glow faintly. Coming up to the young Starfinder he extended his hand, approximated a smile, and said,
"Greetings Zach rodchester! I am Andraeus-7 what form of companion do you desire to lift your spirits?"
Andraeus followed his query with an over exaggerated wink of his left eye as he had seen Fuzzy Lumpkins do when talking about finding a social partner after a long voyage.