"Very good question Elisa."<br/><br/>Perkins stood in the doorway into the messhall, sipping on his fourth cup of coffee for the evening. Helping around on the command bridge was harder work than one would think, especially if you still behaved like a DropShip-commander. There was a bit of stubble on his usually clean shaven chin and the grey streaks at his temple looked a little ruffled. In his other hand there was a file, one of the yellow ones with a big red BRIEFING across it. Cliche as hell, but the man liked to hold it a waist height just to see everyone's eyes dart towards his crotch.<br/><br/>"How about a Capellan military hardware engineer who was financed to design a tactically diverse Cataphract model before he even was evaluated for citizenship? A little fellah that at the age of thirteen built his own small laser and after having tested it decided to upgrade it to pulse just for the heck of it. A now 26 year old engineering genius who could quite possibly be able to recreate that little marvel we got down in the bay right now. And to think that the Capellans are about to make him a servitor. Such waste, don't you think?"<br/><br/>He walked up to the others and threw the file over to Erich before he had a seat next to Graff, had a whiff of the boy and shifted the chair a bit closer to Miyoko.<br/><br/>"He's quite a pilot as well, he never trusted any of his prototypes to be ridden by some roughneck mercenaries, pardon the expression. Perhaps not the most experienced, but a potential. Sadly he has a 'degenerate mindset' that would have made him a normal person in any other place than the Capellan Confederation. Brainwashed like all of them, just that he has a way of expressing himself that the govies doesn't take too kindly to. So instead of seeing him go to waste in servitorship he hired the company to bust him out of Capellan space. Since he has no money of his own I suggested he work the expenses off."<br/><br/>He sipped his coffee and smiled wide.<br/><br/>"I mean, no one here has an overabundance of sympathy for the Capellan Confederation right?"