Was wonderin where you got off to, guess you've been a mite bit busy since the last time we met. Pleasure to hear back from yah, Doc. I will admit this here offering made me raise an eyebrow. I mean the assignment looks fine and all, heck I am always fine with running security details. I just hear that that there Lazurith fellow has just got trouble following him around like a stray puppy, granted he hasn't done anything particularly stupid enough to end up on a bounty board, but whenever I hear his name brought up it always seems to be followed by someone groaning loudly in frustration. Hopefully that guy hasn't cause too much grief for yah.

But anyways, I'm indifferent to the little bastard. He hasn't pissed me off, and if you want me to try to keep aliens off his back for a bit I can see what I can do. Wouldn't exactly be my first dance with the things, I've seen a fair few out in the Omicrons myself so I figure I can handle any in the Barrier just fine. Can also provide escort work for your other ships provided they don't do anything too goofy that'd land them in a ton of hot water with local authorities.. Regardless I frequent Barrier Gate, so I will keep your work in mind when I am in the system. Though that being said, you mind if I take a look at your shop next time I am in Coronado? I ain't no nerd so I am sure it'd all go above my head, but I am a mite bit curious.

And XP? What like one of those hologames? I mean sure, Doc, whatever floats your boat.

Sounds good, Doc. I will see to keeping you and your guys safe.

Just wanna quickly reiterate one thing I said in space though; As an officially registered Guild pilot I can't go shootin at any legally recognized authorities (I.E. LPI, Navy, LSF) or lawful civilian organizations on your behalf (I.E. IMG, DSE). I plan on continuing my own Guild work while not doing jobs for you, but if push comes to shove I will be sure to behave myself and do my best to protect you, your employees, and your equipment from pirates, ruffians, ne'er do-wells, aliens, and all that. And I will keep an eye on Kris too.

Legally I have been advised to forward anyone hiring me for personal long term assignments the following documentation: #375517-204

Look forward to working with you, Doc.

Uuuuuh who came up with a recipe like that is the first thing I wanna ask. Cause it sounds... unique. To put it mildly, I have been really scratchin my head on the thing for a bit and I can only think up a couple ways it'd even work, and even then... I mean ain't there a better way to test your theory? I said before that I'd taste it, not necessarily make a meal out of it. But whatever. There's been other business going on.

You may have heard it by now but Kris has been talkin alot with that Caliban guy, I ran into them meeting out in space near Barrier Gate like, four or five times as is. Last I saw he was telling Kris that he had some kinda special job for him and he had to do it alone. Sounds like they were planning on meeting up and Kris was gonna be getting on some other ship at docking section B sometime soon, if not already. Gettin any info from him is like squeezin blood from a rock. Can say this, whatever it is, Kris don't seem like he is in a position to say no, despite the protests of myself and Miss Rivers at the time. As for Caliban... I dunno much about Caliban himself, other than he's a grumpy bastard... ok well I can say a few things about him with a mite bit of certainty:

A) He's a grumpy bastard
B) He hates the Order and the Technocrats
C) Seen him flying fighters that are of Xeno design or refurbishment (I dun trust this bit, nary a bit), along with an older fighter of Rheinland make

But what he's up to I dunno and what Kris is involved in I dunno either. Can also say that Crayter, LSF, and BDM ships have been poking around the area too, likely related to all this alien business. So chances are good that your Mr. Assistant #14 is in over his head somehow. Again. Heck, you got your work cut out for you with this one, Doc.

Doc, I dunno if I can stomach this stuff. I tried it, like I said I would. I dunno what you're into about this stuff. I am willin to bet money someone dared that cook to whip this stuff up and he gave up halfway through figuring it out and just pitched out some Synthfoods stuff that don't sell.

Though I have been admittedly wracking my brain a mite bit on this and how to make it work. Heck I got a few ideas. I figure you gotta have a good meat for this, maybe like some candied pork belly, that there could be the base vehicle for all the flavor here... basically you chop that up into cubes right? Normally you'd wanna rub it down with some nice spices like Caijun mixes or something but I mean if you're really wanting some pumpkin spice nonsense you'd wanna get some cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and ginger I guess. I dunno, but you gotta use the real shit and not that pre-packaged stuff the guy gave up on and started selling. Anyways, you smoke that for like three hours, then take all the chopped up pork belly and get it in a tin where you cover it with a bunch of brown sugar, some honey, and some butter, and something like apple juice. Cover that thing up and throw that whole tin back in the smoker for like ninety minutes. You'd maybe wanna follow that up with some kinda glaze but I mean this is gonna go into a soup so that may not work, but anyways.... something like that would get you some nice pumpkin spiced candied pork belly that you could use for a base meat in all this business. It's gonna be sweet and smokey and spicy and crispy, so, yeah, it's frankly the spice mix though that's throwing me off a lil. Weird but it could work. Pork does pair a mite bit well with a lot of those spices adjacent to all this pumpkin spice business after all.

Though if you wanna be more traditional I guess you'd wanna use chashu pork but I dunno.

Ramen typically has some small amount of veggies in it so I mean I guess you could come up with a way to get some pumpkin in there, I dunno cut it thin like strips of carrot? But hell, Doc, I dunno... but I mean, intrinsically, ramen is a very savory dish, it's somethin with a fair bit of that there umami flavor or whatever. And salty flavors too. I mean it's basically a soup and noodles and other stuff. And I mean what you're trying to make work is somethin so freakin aeromatic and sweet it's like, oil and water mixin here. There's gonna be a lot of conflicting flavor profiles so I mean I dunno if its worth wasting ingredients on tryin to make a palatable version of the stuff. But I mean if you like what they're sellin, feel free to continue to be their customer, I ain't gonna stop you and I doubt I could.

Why am I offerin cooking advice and trying to get you to change your damn peculiar pallet anyways?