Ensign Antonio Lopez walk on the small deck of the Perseus, where four fighters are located. He looks to the picture of his wife and child, a beaultiful green-eyed girl. Chief Paulo Torres come through a door:
Chief Paulo Torres: We are going out. The Perseus is sending its fighters to the Theseus.
Ensign Antonio Lopez: Is that permanent?
Paulo: Yes it is.
Antonio go to the toilet, and find Scuttari washing his hands.
Lopez: Captain...
Scuttari: Dont say, I known it. Fact is, the fighters are being costly for this ship. Your wife, how is she?
Lopez: She is pregnant. Nine months.
Scuttari: Nice, you can use this transfer to go to Malta and visit her. Knowns that...I wash my hands everyday, more than dr Ortega.
Lopez: Dr Ortega?
Scuttari: You probably dont known him. Jorge Ortega is a doctor in the cloned organs trade.
Scene cuts to medical rooms, the white and red make a colorful contrast, as the old man takes cloned foetus in his hands and throwns them into a bin.
Scene cuts back to the toilet.
Scuttari: Actually the trading of cloned organs is considered illegal, unless you have proper authorization, but who cares for the rich and fat governors of the houses? Dr Ortega dont need to wash his hands...he use gloves for it.
Scuttari go to the bridge, and check the messages in his neural net.
Comm ID: Dom Emilio Cortez, planet Malta
Scuttari, its a great pleasure to contact you. Doctor Ortega needs a covering for a smuggler in Liberty space, and I thought it will be a good idea to use the services of the brave Phalanx for it. The name of the smuggler is Arnaldo Navarro, a known guy of mine who ships drugs to the junkers of Trafalgar base. Arnaldo will be shipping contraband to Houston, he will be coming from Puerto Rico. I ask that you cover him for some runs, as the liberty navy is always using their big cruisers to stop smugglers in small freighters. I wish you the best, my friend.
Cortez out.
Scuttari: What a coincidence, I was just talking about him.
Woodland: Who?
Scuttari: Ortega. We have work to do. One smuggler is shipping contraband to Houston, and Dom Cortez want us to cover him.
Woodland: Is that those cloned organs mutated with cardamine, or are those diseased cells that he sends to insemination clinics?
Scuttari: I dont known what is, I just want to known we have to cover this smuggler. What do you see in the scanners?
Woodland: Five liberty cruisers.
Scuttari: Oh, how they are stupid. Why to deploy five cruisers when most of the outcasts around are in fighters? They have so many money that they dont known where to spend it.
