[center][h1][color=00a651][b][u]NERO KAYAKOS[/u][/b][/color][/h1][/center]

So, alot of the votes were apparently going towards a swift campaign to hit the planet of Plenty sooner than later, handling all of the dangers therein so they could make it to that prison ship in a hurry.  Good to know and great to he- [color=00a651][i]What the hell, man?[/i][/color]  Nero started giving Fin a look like 'What's your problem?' after the boy gave him a nudge.  What was he objecting to?  They were agreeing on shit here and he didn't even say anything weird.  They all knew what they were getting into, what they were signed up for.  Geez, give it a rest...  Aaand no sooner did he think it than Fin decided - purely at random - to be a [i]cat[/i], and to settle on Tarak's shoulder.  Okaaay...  Let's move on, huh?  Moving on right to a...man who was very definitely drunk, who just sauntered in, wondering what's up.

[color=00a651]"Dunno.  Kind of a show-stopping number walked in the door."[/color]

Always with the sass...  Nero was the savage here, one way or another.  Maybe this guy was a die-hard mercenary when he was on the clock, but this?  This was clearly happy hour, for him.  Nero watched things unfold while taking bites of the lemon bar he'd been offered.  He was about halfway through it as somebody else made their way in.  [i][color=00a651]Geez, seriously, how many more people are gonna...what?[/color][/i]  That...that was different.  The person who walked in and greeted them all was a being Nero had never seen or read about before.  He was taken by surprise, because of her appearance.  She was obviously an alien, but...as far as she looked...not bad.  Nero was caught up staring for a moment, so he [i]almost[/i] missed the part where she was in adoration of the cute feline perched on Tarak's shoulder, and as she proceeded to pet it, Nero facepalmed, thinking...

[i][color=00a651]Fin, you lucky son of a bitch.[/color][/i]

That shapeshifting power had been good OR bad for him, given circumstances.  Well, at the moment, it had to be more of a highpoint, in his case.  That girl - Amy, she called herself - was all over him.  Tarak wasn't even trying to stop her, which made it kinda' funny, but Nero decided not to tease this one.  There was something about her that was...better.  Maybe she was being a bit doting, aaand maybe she didn't realize they were teens and not kids, but this didn't look like a bad thing, you know?  Anyway, she started asking for introductions, and of course Fin decided to change back.  All this amidst Ariel taking the bottle of alcohol off of the drunken soldier.  And then, as she brought up information on the Ascendancy's movements in regard to their mission, Nero snapped his fingers, remembering something.

[color=00a651]"Yeah, that reminds me: I was gonna ask if we had to worry about any prisoners on the ship besides the Realist."[/color]

It was always possible that the prison ship was full of nutjobs who either wanna get out or wanna fix the ship and take it away.  You never know.  Annyway, though, Nero would be listening for an answer while keeping an eye on other events in the room.