A few beats passed as Mac and Ferdinand looked at each other, and the emotions that played out on their faces were way too complicated for the stat suit’s translator to completely unravel. Then Mac smirked, the expression lightly teasing as she turned back to our hosts.
“That’s the motivation bit of our story,” she concluded. “Now you share your motivations: what got you down here, with everything trying to take a bite out of you? Then it’ll be our turn again, to explain our present mission, and the mess we’re in now.” She c****d her head questioningly. “That seem fair to you?”
“More than fair,” agreed Jasper. “We Cobldp have always had…difficulties with the laws of the Pan-Galactic Republic,” he began. “What I mean is that we have always had a hard time understanding your r
