Axl was more than ready to spend the entire fragging briefing curled up in the stupid egg pod and sulk. It was bad enough he had to wake up without a body-- and really whoever thought that was a marvelous idea did not have any idea how close they'd come to him shooting them in the face afterward-- but whoever had managed to sim his programming outside his body had also confiscated his armor call. Paperwork bullshit for things that weren't his fault?

So tempted to shoot people in the face. And he couldn't even chalk that one up to Lumine's data.

The word "citizenship" did get his attention, though. 'roids in the Earth Federation didn't get full citizen status, hence Mavericks usually getting retired without trial, but if here was different it might almost even things back up.

"You guys have any paramilitary or armed NGOs here?" Axl finally asked, waving a little. He didn't much like the idea of joining a formal military (too Earth Federation, and he was still a bit bitter about getting almost bombed into oblivious kthx), but the Hunters weren't really militia either... and he was willing to bet that if this "Admiral Bulsara" could tell the civilian sector what to do about all of them, there was probably a pretty incestuous relationship going on between the militia and the military proper.