In the ship's mess hall, a gruff looking man sat shuffling a deck of cards as he puffed on a pipe. He was wearing the standard Systems' Alliance ship-board uniform, under a non-standard green jacket, and he wore his hair in a military buzz-cut. Dealing the cards out to the other players, he looked at his cards, then gazed at the others with narrowed eyes; the tension in the room ratcheting up as he did so. The mans' name was Phillip 'The Rock' Ayres, and the game he was playing-<br/><br/>"All right. Anyone got any Three's?"<br/><br/>- the game was Go Fish.