With a new incident suddenly on their hands, Dax decided to send back the girls while Solaris insisted to stay with him, after dragging Dax away from police chief Hort and his men she quietly whispered to Dax.
"... This is bad isn't it?"
"It could be, but that all depends on the major controlling parties in the senate, if they care about the people then I should be alright, if they care more about the upcoming elections then I could be in quite hot water."
Already tired of dealing with politics, Dax connected to the IMI network and reacquainted himself with the current 5.013 elected representatives of the Galactic senate, looking up the various political parties and alliances in place while instructing IMI to dig deeper into the system and identify key industrial and pharmaceutical backers standing behind the different parties.
"... How hot would that water be exactly?"