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"The Core can be extremely difficult," he replied. "It is not so much the Zoners themselves as it is they dislike the neutral stance or worse, what they see as a lack of a spine when enemies of theirs loiter in an NFZ or worse than that, build a base within it. I need not remind you about that. As a rule of thumb, I try to not have anyone not Zoner escort any of my ships. You will see Alicia flying solo a lot as we do not seek to appear as if we are choosing sides. All that said, I respect the Core which is better than fearing them."
A thought crossed his mind. He snapped his fingers and pointed to her. "Oh! I need to get ahold of Jerard. A friend of mine has a bomber as a security ship at Pygar. I funded it. He goes by Ringo."
Doc snickered, "He named it that to tease me I guess. He keeps to himself so you may have to catch him in space. He has no allegiance so he may join you but his priority is the safeguard of Pygar.
"I am also going to put you in a chat with Miss Cook, or Alicia as you know her. You will quite likely see more of her than me as she is based out here. I will set that up shortly."