Rejoining the council Laowai looked around him and wondered how long it had been since he had sat here last.
"Greetings my friends" he said as he took his seat "I regret my business has kept me busy these last months, it has been sometime since i have sat among you."
He noticed the new additions to the room and gave them a nod, he knew the feeling of walking into this room as a new seated member all to well, it did not seem that long ago at times that he had been in that position, though so much had transpired since that time it might as well be an age.
The business of the Corsair nation nevertheless trundled on as it always did, this was the reality of governing a people who's aims encompassed personal glory, wealth and achievement. He noticed a report on his data pad concerning Corsair incursions into Kusari; he had taken a belligerent tone on this issue before, and as he surveyed it now he wondered if he should maintain such a position. Certainly he still believed in the right of all Corsairs to take that which they believed was their own, yet in recent times the intelligence reports he had received had spoken many times of the pointless squandering of resources by Corsair captains who seemed to have taken the "personal glory" part of the Corsair mindset to a level above that which benefited the Corsairs as a whole.
He tossed the pad before him, he would concern himself with this later.
"What matters are before us in this session?" he asked