As Damien and Joseph approached the woman, they watched as she spun around in her stool to face them, before she asked who they were.

"Who we are is none of yo-" Damien began to respond before Joseph cut him off and pulled him to one side.

"Let me do the talking big guy. I don't want a repeat of what went down on Chuai Station, understood?" Joseph quietly said, his tone sounding a bit serious. Damien nodded. They walked back over to the woman.

"Apologies about my friend's lack of manners. He's Russian, hence the lack of manners. Anyway, I noticed that you've been glancing at me and my crew a few times. Might I ask who you are and why you've been eyeing my crew up?" said Joseph, curious as to who this woman was.

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Meanwhile, Alyssa and James watched Joseph and Damien from afar table, preparing should things got ugly. Just then Epsilon showed up on Joseph's holo-comm.

Joseph, I ran that scan as you asked me to and I got- Wait, where did he and Damien go?

said Epsilon, only to see that Joseph and Damien had moved out of sight.

"They went over to that woman. You took too long with the scanning." Alyssa replied. "Speaking of which, did you get anything about her from the scan?" she quickly asked.

Well, there wasn't a lot of stuff I could find, no-thanks to Gambit's Bar's shitty CyberNet, but I got something interesting. That woman over there has some connection to The United Aschen Empire.

Epsilon replied, revealing all that he could find.

"United Ashens Empire? How the fuck did Stuart get an Empire of his with someone as good looking as that lass over there?" James remarked.

James, I said Aschen, not Ashens.

Epsilon responded.

"Look, regardless of spelling, if we were to mess with this 'United Aschen Empire', how dangerous would that be?" Alyssa asked.

I err... I don't honestly know. Truthfully, I'm hoping that Joseph and Damien don't fuck up. Otherwise, we may have 2.5 Trillion people after our heads.

Epsilon replied.