...and Marco and the girl confirmed it. His grin growing, Kang tilted his head to one side slightly, "Marco, I was an officer who became the leader of an entire nation. Do you really think I would have had time to run a business on the side, or wanted to? That tavern wasn't mine; it belonged to an old friend. I don't run it here because I like playing bartender. I run it because I don't trust very many others with it, and most importantly, it's the best place to gather information on the entire bloody ship. Ale makes people speak more freely. I still miss bits here and there, though, and it's very annoying when I'm used to having a spy network working for me." And assassins, but best to leave that part out for now.

He shrugged, "No one, yet. Your skills would mostly be used on planet missions instead of on the ship. However, don't you think that we could have prevented some of the things that have happened here if we'd been a little more vigilant, like the bombs and Cassie and Charles's deaths? Stacy can't see everywhere, and unfortunately, she counts some people here as crew that would seek to destroy us."