Lance Daniels<br/>Position: Engineer<br/>Location: Infirmary<br/>With: All, Braxton, Sue and Phil tagged<br/><br/>Lance chuckled at Sue's mention of<em>The Line</em>being an investment.<strong>"I'm not entirely certain I'd recommend this ship as the most sound investment right now.  Right now we are just slightly in the red."</strong>It wasn't one of his better jokes, but most of them weren't.  He didn't let his self-consciousness keep him from smiling as he acknowledged Sue's compliment, though.<br/><br/>As usual when in groups, Lance started spending less time paying attention and more time inside his own head.  He heard Mya's suggestion of Persephone and a mention of her arrangement, which got Lance's attention.<em>Had she managed to get some money out of the strikers somehow?</em>Lance noticed that Braxton didn't respond to that part of Mya's proposal.  He made a point to ask Braxton about it later.  He even kept quiet when Braxton mentioned the risks of the in flight emergency plan.  There were more important matters to attend to at the moment, like getting paid.  Lance raised his hand at the prospect of getting their money back, which he knew wouldn't surprise much of anyone.<br/><br/>When Sophie volunteered herself to play decoy, Lance looked over at Sue skeptically, but said nothing.  He was sure that others were thinking along the same lines, that Sophie was more likely to get distracted herself than not.  After all, this was her first day on the ship and she'd already made a play for him and Mya, and dropped plenty of hints for Braxton.<br/><br/><strong>"Mya makes a good point.  A lawsuit would normally be a route worth taking.  Maybe if there were some interplanet agency or law system designed to counter these types of local corruption issues.  Some type of treaty organization, an...<em>alliance,</em> if you will."</strong>Lance smiled proudly.  He always enjoyed rubbing in the pros of the Alliance around Braxton and the First Mate, wherever he was.<br/><br/>Lance didn't know who Levi was, but didn't want to argue with what she said for two reasons.  First, he tried to avoid angering people before he found out more about them, especially if they were attractive.  Second, he knew nothing about robbing trains.  Instead all he could do was gesture to Braxton as though to ask "who is this?"  Then Phil jumped in with his eagerness.<strong>"That's a lot of bravery for a deserter that was nowhere to be found while we were getting shot at."</strong>