Sunbucks Cafe

[Zapp]

Matt Myers stood up from his chair, and raised his coffee mug a bit. He was in his late forties, brown hair streaked with gray. Slightly overweight, nonetheless surprisingly light on his feet, for a man of his girth.

"Thank god we're not the Kusari, Bretonian, or Rheinland police," he said, by way of some sort of toast. Everyone raised their coffee mugs a few inches off the table, then they all fell back at the same moment. Not much enthusiasm, there. Maybe they were wondering what was so good about being LPI, for that matter.

"First, the Cavalier Bretonian light fighter is the most ugly ship I've ever laid eyes on." Some more mugs rose a bit further than before; the Patriot, did indeed look good.

"Second, Bretonia and Kusari are at war, so while the Navy is off fighting where ever the hell they fight, the police have to take care of everything at home." Several mugs rose a bit, with a few smiles around, now. What would they do if Liberty went to war and the Navy wasn't around home?

"And third, the Rheinlanders get paid even worse than us, as well as having to deal with heavy fighters a lot more than we do." Mugs all the way up, now. Everyone took a deep swig of coffee, and started talking about why everyone else had it better than them.

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