Glad that the acquisition had gone so well, Xev gently exhaled and leaned back for the time being. It was a pose that she probably would have known from many other troopers. While it looked quite cocky, and indeed the corps appreciated the confidence it gave them, it was actually necessitated by some degree by the type of armor that they wore. Now, though, she had shared with him the information about how they were sort of stuck here.<br/><br/>Thinking it over very briefly, he turned toward her and shook his head before he started to speak through that metered and amplified loudspeaker system once again. "No, I came in on a Skipray Blastboat that left after placing me and my droid here. Wouldn't showing up in that be conspicuous? I could call them again."<br/><br/>Once she had brought up the question of whether he could undo the damage, however, the trooper nodded. "I am from the biker scout corps, so I have plenty of experience fixing machinery. I also used to race swoops." That would have been an unusual admission, considering that swoop bike racing was highly illegal.<br/><br/>Naturally the question and concept of that droid would have come back into play. While she might have internally corrected herself that he had been loaned a droid, they worked together so often that Xev considered the Astromech to be more like perhaps a mechanical coworker that was also a tool. He didn't own the droid outright, but they were partners nonetheless.<br/><br/>"Yes, the Astromech could help us out for sure. I assume that you being a bounty hunter have a number of skills that would be useful to our cause as well."<br/><br/>The way that he had been speaking would no doubt have raised some really unusual questions. Xev was an interesting individual, that was for sure, but his biggest surprise hadn't even yet been revealed to her. By this point they probably had a coolant problem anyway, but he could have exposed part of the engine intake manifold to vacuum to prevent it from overheating.<br/><br/>Space itself was, of course, very cold. The pressure differential as well as the heating on spacecraft skins from starlight was actually the cause of the high internal temperatures that many spacefaring peoples experienced.<br/><br/>Eventually, he cocked his head toward her and seemed to be asking her a nonverbal question. He wanted to know what happened to Ran. Should there have been a criminal on the run at this point, well, that would have made all of this an Imperial problem more than something that was a local one.<br/><br/>Admittedly, despite his previous politeness toward the Kessel Royal Family, he had his doubts about them. He didn't particularly like the spice mines. Any source of illegal drugs and their suppliers, in his mind, should have been wiped out as scum. They were rebelling against the order that he was supposed to be charged to protect.