Ran seemed quite concerned about hearing that the contact hadn't gone entirely cleanly, moving a bit closer to Jane to ask her about the incedent.<br/><br/>"A sniper, you say, did you happen to get a look at his face, clothing, or what kind of weapon he happened to be using?"  Ran then decided to return Jane's wisecrack.  "You know, Persephone is a rather nice planet, not like the fetid, lawless, rim world we're headed to next.  "Medical Emergencies" on such planets usually carry very little risk of infection, at least when proper safety procedures are followed.  Of course, given that I don't have much to do on this flight, if you happen to want a tatoo added or removed, I can certainly accomidate you."  Ran didn't put any particular unusual stress on the words "medical emergency" but he and Jane both knew that if he was involved in an actual emergency, he would be too busy sticking his hands and tools into his patient's internal organs to bother with taking a comm call.<br/><br/>Hearing of all the talk about reavers, Ran felt he had to weigh in.  "Weapons?  On this ship?  To handle reavers?  I don't know what you've heard, but the reavers don't take kindly to shipboard weapons.  They'd equip their ships with far more weaponry and armor than any decent folk could possibly have, and there's certainly no winning in a stand up fight against them, or at least that's what the alliance dispaches say about the legality of equipping light ships with weapons to deal with a "hypothetical" threat of piracy.  My take on it, really, is that the best defense against Reavers is a weapon for every person on the ship, and a few hundred pounds of high explosives just under the engine, enough to get the entire ship and anything around it reduced to cosmic ash."  Ran seemed to be talking in his "drunk at 10 AM" tone of voice again, offering all sorts of unasked for advice in the way of ship's doctors since man had first looked up into the sky and realized that he would need someone to heal him when he caught exotic venerial diseases from a green woman, but that such a person could be made such an impotent and low ranking member of the ship that he certainly wouldn't be able to keep him from sleeping with the green woman and enangering all of humanity in the first place.