"Before you speak, let me make something abundantly clear. I did not ask you here, and I do not want you here. Your presence is merely a formality to put my superiors at ease. I do not want you grunts littering my streets and scaring my citizens. You are to patrol around my city, investigate the colonies surrounding us, and then report back that you have found nothing. Am I understood?"
"Yes, sir, you are." Bill answered dryly. "However, I must correct you on a few points: an entire battalion of marines has gone missing, at 05:00 we lost contact with the Baltroid Prime colony, and the last transmission sent from the colony contained a SOS message, none of which equates to our presence being a formality. It also makes the possibility of us finding nothing extremely unlikely. Now, with all due respect sir, would you like to put your ego aside for a moment so that we can discuss this matter like adults?"