"Savage, halt! This is Liberty Navy, you are... he's gone!"...
Savage jumps through to California, hacking into the jump gate to allow him to pass. Has he approaches the trade lane, a long range transmission is coming through. He doesn't recognise its signature, then the code is decoded and it pops up... Its from DR.
Savage is surprised, to say the least. He presumed that DR would be dead, clearly from the wound he left him. At this point, he knew that there was more to DR than a simple infection. Could he be a pure nomad? Or something else, or just plain blessed with outcast luck. Savage scrambles the message through a communications public net system, just in-case DR tries to manipulate the transmission for his own good.