It considered the offer, its remaining physical hand opening and closing as it did so, taking nearly half a minute to respond. "As long as you understand that if I don't get a record of my travels, I can't bring a recovery team back to get the other shut down units of my squad, which is something of a priority. And if this trip ends with me in one of your bases, I might be less than amused, I see no issue to accepting transport to friendlier territory."<br/><br/>Maybe it was arrogance, but Reaper felt fairly certain it could take even a full base of these troopers even if they were planning something devious. Especially since it could form a semi-solid shadow left arm for fighting, plus Draiss had linked all the command units to Ve'len, meaning it could normally 'dope' itself off the beyonder's power. Basic tests seemed to show it could still push beyonder power, at least for the moment, but without actually going partially crystalline, it couldn't know for sure.