The clerk at the desk, a pretty, if boring, young lady, looked at Hieggen and sighed, shaking her head.
"Good luck," she said, adding a whispered, "you'll need it..."
He was then led into the recruitment office to meet Admiral Andrews, and was immediately hit by the stench of strong liquor and narrowly missed by a laser bolt from a smoking pistol in the unkempt recruiter's hands.
"Argh! Dammit, they sent ninjas after me! Give up and explain yourself, you rice poisoning bastard!"