"I haven't met half of those people," Ben says, "but I trust your judgement on them. There are a couple stories to tell. This is the first one." He comes out of the ship carrying something that looks a little like a strange sort of gun.

He flashes a grin back to Ravage before clearing his throat.

"There were a clan of space pirates called Eliksni who invaded the Nexus a couple winters back - insect-looking creatures with armor and four arms. Scavengers who are after technology and scrap. You've probably never seen one, they live in the Wilds and mostly keep to themselves. One of them dropped this, and I figured it's mine now." Ben shows the repaired matter encrypter to Misfire. "It's a matter encrypter - you can store things on it, turn physical objects into data. This one was broken, which explains why they dropped it."