The ones responsible for organising parties and covering up any issues they cause

You're getting so close to being able to bring down Alice and drag the reputation of the Psi Pi Psi sorority through the mud. You've started laying the groundwork for making the arrangements for Alice's downfall, a plan that carries no small amount of risk to you and anyone else involved or even in the general vicinity of it, should it go wrong. These preparations were where you're funneling most of your funds, from both the research data you're providing Dr Charms and the royalties you're earning from the holo-porn shoots.

Those same preparations were also forcing you to make contacts in a much more dangerous realm of people of the corporate world. Black market goods and hiring people of ethical persuasion for money are one thing. However, once the amount of credits at play hits a threshold to draw corporate interest then things get considerably more dangerous for all parties involved. It's the criminal equivalent of moving from bullying someone for their lunch money to suddenly being involved in organised crime. Still, you're hopeful that if you can keep the dealings with these people to a minimum and pose no interest to them, you can pull off your plan without having your soul divided up among the mega-corporations faster and more ruthlessly than the void devil itself.

For now, you have a meeting with one Dr Alice Charms about your proposal regarding the fertility project, which is why you're currently sitting back and having every square inch of your body and genetic code scanned. The only invasive part of the procedure is being **** to sit in a dark room lit with pale blue light emanating from the scanner. There was no reason these scans needed to be conducted in the dark, other than an aesthetic choice.

"Well when you're running your own off-the-books lab project, you can rock the boring sterile light environment you think this should be conducted in," Dr Charms says with a smile, answering the question your body language is asking for you.

"Well the results may speak for themselves, but I can't help but feel like I should be asking if you can give me a few piercings while you've got the equipment down there," You reply with a weary sigh.

"Like I'm going to take criticism on taste from someone who could have asked for a different scene, but still willing chose to star as the pizza girl with extra sausage holo-porno," Dr Charms replies with a giggle.

"I think Elise said we were being ironic," You reply with the half-laugh of someone not even attempting to go along with the obvious lie.

"Well, I'm not so sure about that, but judging from the medical scans we received courtesy of the Charons Hope Colony records department, and your co-starlet outbursts on her socials, we can add another to your baby-making tally," Dr Charms replies with an evil smile.

"My only regret is Debbie didn't read her contract and is blaming the studio," You reply with a soft sigh. "I'd love to have a chance to film a follow-up scene with her huge tits, swollen and full of milk," You add with a shrug.

"A genuine tragedy," Dr Charms agrees. "Did the studio try explaining to her, how much more money she's making now?" Dr Charms adds hopefully.

"Oh, she's aware, just pissed that she has to carry it to term," You explain with a shrug. "From one risky shoot, she's earning what she'd make in half a year doing 3-5 shoots a week, plus the Colony's generous child care grants," You continue. "Elise reckons she'll come around, just needs to time to come to terms with unexpected motherhood and for the first royalty transfer to hit her account," You conclude.

"You're not convinced?" Dr Charms asks.

"Well, even if my plan goes off without any issue, I'll be laying low," You reply with a smile.

"I still can't believe you got the project lead to agree to this," Dr Charms says shaking her head. "Considering I'm all but running the show and even I don't have any names of way to contact them," She adds looking at you with concern in her eyes.

"Yeah, I'm not happy about it either, but it is mutually beneficial with zero risk to the project or our undisclosed parent company," You begin sitting up as the scanner finally finishes buzzing above you and recedes back into the body of the machine. "Still, it's the exact flavour of chaos I need and the sheer potential volume of data is too good to pass up, especially with how much refinement you've made with my modest contributions to the gene pool," You say with a wry smile.

"Yeah I must admit, that Samantha girl you pointed my way, had a much less painful experience with the mod than you own," Dr Charms explains with a grin.

"Lucky her," You reply sourly, recalling briefly your own experience with experimental mod. The closest you could imagine anyone could get to feel their own body being torn apart and reassembled. "Did she get the full rundown of what the Mod does for her?" You ask, recalling how Samantha seemingly stopped hearing anything beyond extremely potent.

"She didn't ask for specifics and I thought It might be fun for her to discover just how strong and tenacious her baby makers are now," Dr Charms replies with another evil smile, leaning back in her chair and taking a large inhale from her nicotine pen.

"Well she'll be in good company if the formulation can be replicated in the temporary mods," You reply with a smile.

No sooner than you voice that thought a pair of electronic trills signals that both the scan results are complete and the full spectrum analysis of the first test dose of your special project was also done. You climb out of the chair and walk over to Dr Charms who's speed reading through the results, making frustratingly contradictory positive and negative noises.

"So what's the verdict?" You ask after giving Dr Charms a few minutes to scroll through the data.

"Mods are holding stable and not interfering with the temporary nature of the design," Dr Charms replies with a smile. "Any woman lucky enough to sample it will get 4-6 hours of futa fun, but with sperm as strong as yours," Dr Charms says shaking her head in disbelief. "I'm going to have to hire assistants just to process all the data we'll be getting from these," Dr Charms says with a soft laugh leaning back in her chair.

"Good thing this project is well funded," You reply with a smile. "Speaking of which, any news on what sort of payment you'll be getting for these breakthroughs?" You add while considering the ever-growing costs of your master plan to get back at Alice.

"Enough to cover whatever it is you're planning and to give us both a sizeable escape fund," Dr Charms replies shaking her head and laughing. "I have no idea what you have planned for all this, and honestly I'm starting to feel the less I know the better," She adds with a soft laugh.

"Plausible deniability isn't what it used to be," You say with a smile.

"I don't need it to be much, just enough to keep me far enough away to be just outside that cost-benefit calculation of dragging my ass in to try and answer for the fallout," Dr Charms replies with a knowing grin.

"You really think you'll have to run?" You reply looking around at the lab and knowing most of it would take days to dismantle and get into a transportable state.

"Well I have a feeling this project is nearing its limit on how useful the research is, combine that with a population explosion we're going to over the next year and most likely our funding will be pulled and the station authorities kicking down the door to arrest us for being black market gene-modders," Dr Charms explains in a tone far too casual for your liking.

"Does that happen often?" You ask taken aback by this revelation.

"Oh yeah, it's the unspoken operating procedure for projects like this," Dr Charms explains with a confident smile. "The corporation milks the projects for the useful research and discoveries, then burns the project and its staff, the smart and lucky ones get out before it comes crumbling down and live to work on another project," She continues with a casual shrug.

"So you had much thought on where you'd even escape to?" You ask still processing just how cold and calculating the corporate world can be even this far removed from it all.

"I'm thinking the other of the frontiers, maybe take a few weeks to visit some of the core world tourist destinations," Dr Charms replies with a smile, "I get offers all the time to come join the medical staff on new stations, think I had one just this morning from a station that's only just finished construction, Camella I think it was," Dr Charms adds with a smile.

"Halfway across the galaxy? well if that's not far enough to run, then I don't think any distance would be," You muse. "So what you take up the offer and set up a gene-modding clinic out in frontier space?" You ask

"Something like that, the first wave will be prospectors, explorers who'll need environmental mods, then will come miners and settlers who'll also need gene-mods, after that comes to transport and expansion, then maybe in 20-30 years time the station and planets have been established enough that it makes the transition to a trade hub and pit stop which means long haul pilots," Dr Charm explains with a smile.

"Doesn't sound as exciting as being on the cutting edge of research," You reply with a sigh, the realisation that the industry you'd originally planned to focus on had long since been tainted and ruined by mega-corporate greed.

"No but much safer, especially if I ever want to put down roots and start a family," Dr Charms admits with a sad smile. "Sorry to break it, but projects like these are where the exciting stuff happens, but at the cost of having it crashing down on you," Dr Charms says with a sad smile. "Still beats perfecting the same boring mods in a lab for eternity," She adds with a reassuring smile.

"I'm still struggling to imagine you as a respectable clinic owner with a family," You reply with a wicked smile.

"Oh eat me," Dr Charms replies taking a long draw on her nicotine pen and exhaling a small cloud above her reclined form.

"What about the research you did here?" You ask "Not much room for that in the honest world," You add with a smile.

"Oh, you'll be surprised, I hear stories of those long-haul pilots and the shit they get up to make the long stretches along the void more enjoyable," Dr Charms replies with a smile. "Well-paying crowd too," She adds with a wry smile.

"I suppose the mess they might make using the research not being isolated to your front door step is probably a big bonus," You add.

"Anyhow, if you somehow make it out of this mess intact, then feel free to track me down and tell me all the details," Dr Charms replies with a grin.

"Yeah, maybe I'll also give you a hand starting that family," You offer with a devious smile.

"If the story comes with holos I'll even let you pick the name," Dr Charms replies with a grin.

"As long as you're ok with the name Laura," You reply earning a raised eyebrow from the Dr. "Family tradition, got to name a firstborn after a grandparent and Nana Laura was the nicest of them," You explain with a soft laugh.

"Enough about me, what can you tell me about what you're currently working on, without making me too much of an accessory," Dr Charms asks with a smile.

"Well, I'm trying to pinpoint the person Psi Pi Psi uses as their goto to organise their big events, but every time I try and follow a trail I hit a dead end," You explain. "If I didn't know any better I'd say it was two people masquerading as one," You offer.

"So what leads do you have?" Dr Charms asks, intrigued by a mystery that has you stumped.

"Well, I believe they're a member of staff at the college, although I have nothing on how senior or junior their position is, just that they have some amount of influence," You explain. "Since the parties would take place on campus, sometimes in the lecture halls and other locations that would take a lot of convincing or access to make available," You continue.

"So, definitely well-connected to the college, but are you sure it's a staff member and not just a wealthy parent and donor, maybe even a former Psi Pi Psi sister," Dr Charms asks.

"It's possible, but why use the college campus, when you could rent out a warehouse or large domestic unit like I have with some of my work so far, it's not hugely expensive but considerably more private," You reply with a nod.

"Alright, so they're using the campus grounds because its free, so staff does make more sense," Dr Charms agrees. "Any other clues?" She asks getting more caught up in the excitement of it all.

"Well, the few parties that I know they arranged and which got considerably out of hand, were investigated by campus security. However, nothing conclusive was found each time despite dozens of people being known to have attended and even the local college holonet news reported those same parties as positive events," You continue.

"Well campus security doesn't attract the sharpest the station has to offer, but the college holonet news narrows it down a lot," Dr Charms muses. "It'll either be the current people working there, or the professor overseeing it," Dr Charms muses.

"I thought so too, but the current students at the helm all detest Psi Pi Psi as much as I do, leaving Professor Jane, the head of old Earth history," You reply with a smile. "Former Sister, Perfect level of access, but the problem is her job wouldn't leave her any time to arrange anything for herself, let alone for 100s of students and then covering up any mess they cause," You conclude with a shrug.

"Hence the more than one person," Dr Charms says nodding along. "Got anything else?" She asks hopefully.

"Just the contact name the Sorority has for her, Janus," You reply with a heavy sigh.

"Janus..." Dr Charms says, rolling the name around her tongue. "Janus. Jan us. Jane us..." Dr Charms replies with a big smile on her face as she shakes her head.

"What, do you have something?" You ask, feeling a rush of excitement.

"That History professor Jane, wouldn't happen to be Jane Usella, would it?" Dr Charms asks with a big grin.

"Yeah, it is," You reply.

"Is she still known for saying, I'm so busy I wish there were two of me to do it?" Dr Charms asks with a triumphant smile.

"Yes, a few of the students of hers I spoke to mentioned it, Why do you know something?" You ask, chasing the rush of excitement of finally being able to move on to advance your plan.

"Yeah, I've heard of her before and her identical sister Jan," Dr Charms replies with a grin. "I can't believe they're still running that stupid double act routine after all these years," Dr Charms replies with a laugh shaking her head.

"Thank you, Doctor, you've made this a very fruitful visit," You reply, your mind already running through various ways you could use this information to your advantage.

"Just remember to take Holo's for me," Dr Charms calls after you, as you hastily leave needing a proper work space and holo-terminal to start running through your ideas.