Maude's opinion of the Qin could be summarized in two words.<br/><br/>Ben Franklin.<br/><br/>He wasn't a fool in any aspect of his life. He knew the manner and dress fashions of the French aristocracy as if he had been born with a silver crepe up his ass. But when he came to petition them for help during the american revolution, he came dressed in a coonskin cap and frontier ensemble. Playing the part of a "rugged frontiersman" was an extension of the idea of giving the audience what they wanted.<br/><br/>The Barnum effect... put simply, people believe what they want to. The Qin were not asian, but they knew enough about human or perhaps universal psychology to appear as they were expected to appear.<br/><br/>Personally Bristol didn't care what the Qin actually looked like under the suits. It didn't matter. She knew a secret even GREATER then that of their true form beneath the facade. They were people...<br/><br/>Aliens or not, they had their degenerates the same as humans. She'd experienced some first hand whose taste ran to unseemly acts with humans, their curiousity extending to the carnal knowledges or to the sadism that seemed so alien yet exciting to them. She'd be lying if she didn't admit sparing their too perfect body shells an admiring glance on occasion. But this An Ming Kang... was indeed a strange one. The Qin who she had known were infrequently so foolish or naive as to leave themselves exposed without escort.<br/><br/>Maude stopped wasting time on fancy and moved onto the particulars, "Well Mr. Archer, I flatter myself to think I'm a skilled dowser, but "The Earth" is a bit larger then my usual range of vision. The question we need to ask is how would he travel. Clearly not via Qin ship, and they're not the sort of passersby that go unnoticed by humans. I would suspect the most likely course would be to stowaway on a freighter, if he was trying to avoid detection by his own people as well as other observers. Entry into and out of Olympus, Luna is religiously documented. We should be able to get a copy of the freighters and other non passenger vehicles he would be able to take. There's no guarantee he's left Luna yet unfortunately, but considering the Qin in general, I would suspect he would have already thought well in advance the matter of scheduling. I would say focus largely on those vehicles leaving within the first hour of his disappearance. Considering the time of day, I would expect it to be a short list which can be further shortened by removing any vessels containing hazardous or protected materials, considering the increased security such frigates would be under. Further... analyze the ports of call for the remaining vessels for the shittiest amongst them. If he's looking for a hellhole, then that's what we should look for as well."<br/><br/>She paused in thought for a only a moment, "running the numbers" as she was fond of repeating, "For a high probability of success, I'd need the ports of call that fall under those criteria, a picture of Kang, the frigate registration numbers so I can find them while onsite, and my equipment requisition." Maude held up a gloved hand to the side of her face as if she were whispering to Archer from across the desk, though her voice was quite loud enough for anyone to hear, "And I doubt it's likely, but... if you could get hold of something personal of his, that would make my job quite a bit easier."