[ A fair question, at this point. He never really did explain it to Edamura, did he? ]

I'm...an investor, after a fashion. Going after assets that would prove beneficial to the IPC. I am good at what I do - my performance has never been an issue.

[ It's more that he hates who he works for, the same people who pushed the Avgins to the edge of the inhospitable desert, who ignored their pleas for help, who sold him well before he was recruited by the Strategic Investment Department. Even knowing the universal chaos it would bring...

There's nothing he wants more than to see it crumble. ]

...but I'm still theirs. Not my own.