Seamus was joined by one of his technicians for the meet and greet, a woman by the name of Cassandra, a 40 year old women in charge of one of the electro-telescope projects. "Foreign Minister, welcome to Ui Cenneslaig and to Claith" the Head of the Cenneg Space Agency said as they shook hands, "This is Cassie Northwood, leading up the Extremely Large Telescope project" Cassie leaned forward shaking the man's hand.
"We're due switch on in a few weeks, then hopefully the Morelanders a month later, then the Lodjains" she spoke happily, "Who knows, maybe 18 months from now we could even have a Heyran one." she added merrily.
"Well I guess that depends how today goes doesn't it." Seamus directed them towards a car which was waiting to take them to the agencies HQ. "So before we arrive I have to warn you about some of the things you'll see today. We'll be going to see the Spásárthach Mini Lander which is being packaged up ready to head to Lunar, before your permitted in you'll have to comply with our safety protocol, that means surrendering all electronic devices, giving a bacteria swab, and wearing protective gear. It's part of procedure for everyone who enters the room its being worked on in. You'll even have to wear shoe covers, its a bit of a pain but it'll be worth it." Seamus said eagerly.
"The shoe covers do come in white or yellow, so at least you can be fashionable" Cassandra added, "After that we'll pop into the ELT control room where they're checking a few things. Then we can have some lunch before we work out what projects your interested in and how we can help each other." The car had left the city and was heading out down the coast, limestone causeways lead out to the sea and fishing boat bobbed merrily close to shore catching crab which lurked between the cracks. After about fifteen minutes the launch tower of CSA HQ could be seen, a tall building stood about three football pitches away. "That's the Nursury" Cassie explained, "Rockets are prepared inside, then manoeuvred to the tower 48 hours before launch." she explained as the car was waved through security.
They signed their guest in giving him two badges, "The first just lets people know your a visitor" Seamus said as he placed a green lanyard around the Minister's neck, "This one" he held up a seemingly plain white piece of paper attached to a red lanyard, "Is a radiation monitor, I'm still on my first" he smiled holding up a pure white piece of paper, "Been that way 18 months, the idea is the more radiation it comes into contact with the darker it gets, once it turns black you get six months off and a trip to the doctors once a week......never happened though, just a mindless health and safety thing" he placed that one around their guests neck and motioned for him to follow. "So what exactly does Heyra do involving space at the moment?" he asked keen to gauge where their potential new contributor stood.