"I think it's all a bit less malicious than that, really. More incompetence than anything. No one knows what they're doing, they just pretend. We've got a crew full of whoever shows up and captains who don't seem so sure of anything." Then again, they were all wearing tracking devices and the whole thing was suspicious.

He was still working on figuring it all out.

"How's that for a consolation prize," he said with a snort. "Alright, sure. There's that. Suppose I can't complain in that regard."