"oh crap. Almost forgot."
Then Vik puts two lighters on the table.
"Now then. About the rival empire. My pal Purge, from Crux, told me about a meeting, between a high ranking Combine officer with a high ranking Divide officer. Now, from what those two told me, before dying, it seems, that Vince is behind all this. Looks like his so called Higher Power ordered him to asseble an empire, and fight us. That's all, that the Divide fool had to say. The Combine, on the other hand, are in this so called empire, only because of what Vince promised to give them :access to the abandoned Secrenom labs, that are near the Wolf's Den. I have no idea, what they can find there, we looted all the N2 out of it. Hell, I heard rumours of Trat even making his own N2."
Then after watching around, Vik gets his head closer to James's
"63 people, from all 5 clans, well armed, well trained, heading to the sec. lab in 5 days"