[Rainbowfox Ari]

"Now wait just a minute." Mega interrupted, having smelled a fish. Genuine although this man's demeanor may be, he had a keen eye, and was fairly sure some of those parts WEREN'T. Namely, the parts they were being shown just now. He may have been a doctor, but he was pretty well-versed on ship-parts. He'd gone over the blueprints for the Vera more times than he'd had patients. That is to say, a lot.

"Alright, Julius. My Captain may be a bit desperate for parts, but as I'm not the one flying the hunk of... " he trailed off quickly, then continued in a different vein. "Because I am not the one flying her, I can afford to scrutinize. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that compression coil is missing a socket, isn't it? The 'cargo bay' struts you're selling are too short for any cargo bay, and I'm imagining came off a single-passenger craft. No way they'd take a landing of our ship. Not to mention some of these things aren't exactly the real deal. They appear to be cobbled-together bits of other ships. Now...."

He steepled his fingers. "Because my Captain is too nice a man to ask himself, I will be blunt for him. If you don't show us the REAL parts, I imagine we will have to take our business elsewhere. So where are you keeping them?"