[ Any alliances Rideaux has had have always been based entirely on situational mutual benefit, whether that meant surviving a mission, earning a paycheck, or fighting to keep a reckless idiot alive solely so that he would be available to die in his place later. There's never been anything like loyalty for its own sake, only as a means to an end.

It's naive to think they really work in any other way. And he won't let himself be convinced by any evidence to the contrary. ]

A GHS -- a communication device from my world that allows for real-time voice and text messaging across long distances. You have something similar, I would assume?

[ Obviously Rieze Maxia hadn't, but Dist knows technology well enough that it seems improbable that his world wouldn't have something with a similar function. ]