[ The guy keeps his wits about him, that's for sure. And York can definitely respect that. It's not like the pistol at her hip is easy to miss, either, and her armor can take a punch, too. But she's hoping there won't be any kind of fight, at least not right now. ]

So I'm crazy, but I'm intriguing? Eh, I'll take what I can get.

[ She laughs, and to be fair, you'd expect someone in her situation to be a little less chill about it. And she probably would be, if this were the first time this had happened. It's a little hard to be fazed when you've spent the last eight months on Sacrosanct. She drums her fingers on the bar, trying to figure out where to start.

Might as well be the beginning. ]

Well, the world I come from...we started colonizing other planets a couple centuries back, gettin' all nice and settled in the galaxy, you know? Things were going all right for humanity. Then the Covenant showed up on our doorstep and started a war. We'd never heard of 'em. We still don't know a whole hell of a lot about them, honestly, and we've been fighting a war with 'em for the last thirty years. And losing.

[ She pauses, just for a second, running a gloved hand over the back of her neck. Talking about it now, the war seems so...far away. ]

I was just a kid when it all started up. Don't really remember what it was like beforehand, honestly. Kinda why I joined up, the war being everywhere. I'm -- well, I was with the United Nations Space Command. Project Freelancer, more specifically.