[His eyebrows rose at that explanation, and he slowly nodded his head. He knew what that was like, given the heroes of his world seemed to wish to make his own life here difficult. On that, they were on the same page. However, he now had a better idea where this Mr. Hux was from.]

And your positive word-of-mouth associate wouldn't happen to be Kylo Ren, would it?

[He understood spreading out the jam on many pieces of bread. It didn't allow for one source to reign in the creativity.]

Or, how about I take whatever part you play in the Guard and offer you more, plus allow you to branch out to my numerous sources as well as find your own. Your projects would be screened from the Guard's scrutiny and labeled as defense projects under Prometheus.