Bob took a long slow breath and then looked around to make absolutely certain no one else was around. "Well... you know how I've never mentioned why I left the Service, and ended up in the private sector.... There's a reason for that; the last mission that I went on with the EDF went south.... All the way south, and fast...." he shuddered a little. "No one on it came out in one piece, if they came out of it at all."