Well, if Steve insisted. Zouichi thought he looked a little old for his voice to still be cracking.

"Yeah, it kind of did. Have you ever been on one of those? The ship gives us maybe five sentences about the whole deal, then it turns out the government we're supposed to be negotiating with runs everything on slave labor. And of course they wanted our help crushing the local rebellion before handing over the medical technology we were supposed to be getting."

"Long story short, there were two group kidnappings, a whole bunch of arguing about taking sides, and a clone army we had to fight our way through before we could get back. And this other guy lost his hand."

He shook his head. "Everyone came back alive, though. I guess that's something."