How interesting this was.

When Kaijin got the news of the assassination, his first thought went to the Saiyans. Unlike many people in the galaxy, Kaijin was not so foolish to believe in the stereotypes people usually attributed to the race, which more or less equated to various levels of brute behavior, lack of intelligence or finesse, and just straight up simplicity. The Android knew better, of course. Saiyans were as much of a varied race personality wise as any other. She had met the dumb, simple Saiyans, and she met Saiyans who proved just as philosophically capable as he. As such, he believed the Saiyan Army perfectly capable of pushing an assassination attempt on a capable Imperial, especially a scientist so well known as Nikolas Grey. But why a researcher instead of a military officer, you ask? The reason was simple. Military Officers were imperative to the direct war effort, but who made the weapons? Who developed the tech that the Empire used? The researchers, the scientists. Commercial based, military based, it didn't matter. The sciences were the heart of progression. Halt the progression, and you can attack a crippled Empire. It would be a move he would make. But at the same time, he wouldn't be this slow about it. The Empire employed hundreds, if not thousands of scientists, and no government was necessarily short of them.

After all, if you weren't technologically advanced in today's market as a growing imperial force, what were you? It was the reason Kaijin was still making money, after all. People liked to be up to date with the new and fancy gadgets. Kill the progression, and you kill the economy, and you kill the Empire. You just had to do it swiftly.

Then, he thought back to Black Star, only to dismiss it. Black Star was too disorganized to begin with before the strike team even attacked. Even as unprofessional as Kaijin and friends had been in their tackling of the terrorist threat, Black Star was only held together by intricately woven threads created by mastermind Almus Alvazar. Killing Almus cut those threads, leaving only loose strands floating in the wind. Capturing Sasha Qui and killing Tarno the Warrior Namekian snipped and burned those threads as well, leaving the masses lost and crashing amongst each other. For them to recover so quickly, and on top of that, to organize a strike against a target that didn't hold a large symbolic significance, would be too odd.

But Dain Sincara made sense.


First things first, the Saiyan Bounty Hunter was most likely a prime reason the vast majority of people viewed Saiyans as falling under the all reaching stereotype of being meatheads. For that was more or less what the Saiyan was. A powerful meathead, yes, but a meathead nonetheless. Which made his profession more or less perfect for him. Accept a job for what he deemed to be a good price, the likes of which most definitely did not require a great degree of tact or finesse to carry out, and go ahead and kill. That's essentially what Dain did anyway during the majority of Black Star. Instead of use tact to try and outsmart his adversaries, he simply killed. But, to believe Dain Sincara would strike the hand that fed him for so long? That was bold. To attempt to kill Doctor Grey, and steal a vessel that rightfully began to the Empire by extension. Dain Sincara had done quite a great degree of jobs for the Empire, and being listed as a potential wanted criminal by a major faction, especially with recent political affiliation with the United Systems was not the wisest of career moves. Perhaps more fitting for a powerful criminal empire. But a Bounty Hunter? Dain was powerful. But most certainly not unbeatable.

Perhaps one day he'd test his mettle against the Super Saiyan himself. It would certainly be fascinating to see whether he could beat the man. Maybe even bring the man back to the Empire. Even though Kaijin cut his ties with the Galactic Empire, the thought of seeing what the Neo Gete Star could do for himself, while also throwing a Super Saiyan into the waiting arms of Imperial Custody brought a faint smile to his lips.

Kaijin gave the man a small nod to indicate that he was listening, and that he received the telepathic message that Grey transmitted to him. Despite his appearance and sometimes odd behavior, the Android had to give the man his props. To be able to successfully spy on people so without them noticing was an achievement all on its' own. And then, the fact that he recruited the likes of Tora no Seishin to his side was rather impressive in its' own right. While he didn't know who Genesis is, he figured if he was worthy of Grey's eye...and worthy of fighting alongside the Tiger Master, then he might be worth Kai's attention. However, another name stood out to him, besides the Tiger Martial Artist. Sly. A name he hadn't heard in quite awhile. He had met the raccoon fighter long ago, when Kaijin was a new release upon the world, and when the man was much stronger than he. He knew not what became of the raccoon after that one fight, but if the raccoon was still alive, the Android figured he was even stronger than he was when they last met. A fascinated prospect, to how such a simple, and otherwise pathetic, creature could grow so exponentially.

"How fascinating. You recruited Tora no Seishin, and this...Genesis...and fought Dain Sincara and his ally, Sly...and still could not defeat them. Either Dain Sincara and Sly are stronger than I thought...or your ability to work together as a team was horrendous. So...they attacked you on your own vessel, especially something as important as the Neo Gete Star, and you could not adequately use the resources at your disposal to stop them." Kaijin began to chuckle slowly.



"Nikolas Grey...perhaps you lost this battle...because you didn't understand enough about the Neo Gete Star to capitalize upon its' resources...or....you simply weren't strong enough to possess it in the first place?"

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