Alroy had spent most of his time on Outreach apart from the others, before and after Miyoko's misadventure that ended with her perforated like Illiushini cheese. He had no prior involvement with the Dragoons, nor any wish to establish such involvement, and his expertise didn't extend to salvage or contract negotiations, so he had little to do with regards to official Company business.<br/><br/>Instead, he had immersed himself in the broadening information about the Clans, the weapons they used, and the rapidly darkening situation. A meeting of the heads of the Great Houses had been scheduled and announced right there on Outreach, but the Old Bones would be gone before the House leaders arrived - a good thing, in his mind. Technical specs of the tiny amount of Clan gear salvaged from battlefields abounded, and the tinier amount of intact hardware was going for astronomical prices on the open market and even more astronomical prices on the black market. Everyone and their grandma had ideas on how to jury-rig or overcharge Inner Sphere weapons to bring them on par with the Clantech, and some of the concepts could be retrofitted onto Tanya without needing a full factory refit. But...he had made a promise.<br/><br/>Since they had left Outreach, that time had been in his cabin, wrestling with that promise made almost two decades ago, and the ramifications of breaking it now. He had sunk into his own past, digging up memories buried and thought forgotten, whether voluntary or otherwise, and tapped into his drug supply more than once to alleviate the crushing depressive episodes triggered by some of those memories. He needed outside advice, and in a burst of sadistically twisted irony, there was only one person on the ship capable of understanding the burden he was under and possibly giving advice...and she was laid up in a medbay bed with her innards in tatters.<br/><br/>----<br/><br/>Entering the sickbay, he sought out one of the assorted doctors not otherwise engrossed in paperwork. "If you have a moment, would you be able to give me a status update on Ms. Shadowborn? In particular, I'm curious as to a medical estimate on when she will be permitted to leave the sickbay for non-strenuous activity, and when she will again be capable of ingesting liquids directly."