Lena was still leaning on the bar talking to the bartender when she saw the man coming in. "Guten Tag, mind if i sit?"
She sits down on the opposite side and leans on her elbows. "So? Where are you from, der Herr?"
"Oh, guten Tag." He takes another sip out of the Absynthe bottle. "I'm from New Berlin. Even though I haven't been there for over 20 years..." He looks around the room before finishing the bottle. "Spent most of my times in the Omicrons. So to answer your question, I'm from Rheinland... though one of my parents seemed to be from Kusari."
"Well, kinda. If you saw the Insurgent you probably noticed it's condition. It's a flying piece of garbage I only use if I don't want to be associated with my real faction. You know, I never judged people for the faction their in.. though other like to do this. I used have a Zoner Gunboat, forgot it's name... Carvo or something like this, but I gave it to good friend of mine. So, uh. No, I'm not really a part of the Coaliton, I still got the IFF and the Ship, I just don't want to change it because I've made some good friends in Coalition over the years and just don't want to..." He sighs, "Mein Gott, I'm talking too much again, I'm sorry."
She leaned back in her chair "No problem, that's what i am here for, many people have many stories, this is one of them.
Maybe you should get that repaired then, or you get a new ship,"
"Maybe, or I'll just paint it over." He rests his right arm on the table revealing a barely visible Order emblem. He looks at it slightly surprised. "That thing is still a.. thing? No need to make a secret out of it, I'm with the Order, not the Primary fleet though, that's why I'm to poor to fly a fully working ship. I've spent all my money on the Carvo... Or was it Corvo? Yes, it was Corvo. I've spent all my money on the Hathor and the Corvo, and all the money that was left, went to the insane, Nomad loving captain that is piloting my Corvo Gunboat. Oh, excuse me, the Scientist that is using my research vessel."
She looked with a distrusting glance. "So you go out and hunt aliens? Why did you have to put up a fake story in the first place? It's not like i have something against the Order."
He looks slightly confused."Fake story? I've never lied. The ship belongs to the Coalition. I don't work for them though, I just got friends there, I'm working with the Order. And no, I don't hunt Aliens, I study them. I don't harm anyone unless they attack me, or try to harm me and my crew in any other way."
"I'd have been glad if you could have said this from the start, however, if you need a new ship, the Hessians offer some good technology that you may use, it is not expensive, somebody might even give you a loan for that."
"Maybe... I heard some good things about the Odin. Thing is, I fly this wreckage 'cause It usually gets blown up anyway. I'm a gunboat captain, I cant fly a fighter. By the way, I usually don't tell people I'm in the Order because they usually pull a weapon on me."