Brahman and I are buddies.

Stephen Beam

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Welcome to your new bodies, gentlemen. If you'd like, I can help you start your own 'dysmorphia is all in your head' support group.

Howard Tayler

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Two minutes worth of signal analysis told me all I needed to know. This station "talks" to the dark matter universe about what goes on inside."

"How did you cobble together a jammer so quickly?"

"I had one on me.

Howard Tayler

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You're more mean-spirited than I remember you being."

"It's this organic body. Hologram fur wasn't itchy.

Howard Tayler

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Does that mean that if we shave all the Ob'enn they'll be nice?

Howard Tayler

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Maxim 8:
Mockery and derision have their place. Usually, it's on the far side of the airlock.

-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Howard Tayler

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Maxim 10:
Sometimes the only way out is through... through the hull.

-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Howard Tayler

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Air traffic control is going to have a steamy old fit on your dime, boy.

They can get in line behind the police, the people whose cars we trashed, the Empire of Ob'enn, the Partnership Collective, and the Wormgate Corporation. Oh, and I think maybe some dark matter beasties from Andromeda.

You "think maybe"?
-General Tagon

Howard Tayler

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The way you blunder from one catastrophe to the next, it's a wonder the whole galaxy doesn't hate you.

The galaxy is a big place, General. You provincial military types don't get far enough out to really see that.
-General Tagon

Howard Tayler

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Being a mercenary, though... Hey, we just go wherever there's a mixture of money and trouble, and everyone in the galaxy is a potential customer.

Even the people you're paid to shoot at?

Well, yeah. There are customers we serve, and customers we service.
-Captain Kevyn Andreyasn

Howard Tayler

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