"Well there's us, the people brought here, I guess you could argue we're our own faction, but everyone lives in one of the three places, so." That also means they're in those groups. Jesper wouldn't say that he'd go fighting for Free Cities, but if he had to in order to stay safe within it, he probably would. It all depends on the motivations. And if there's ever any coin involved.

He does know a military tone when he hears it. Sometimes Nina gets into it that way, she is a spy but military first. Like most of their kind. At her question he shrugs.

"Probably. There really is no other reason to bring us here, outside of the fact we're the only people with connections to their big magical Singularity. No one here can approach it, they die before they can. We're the only ones who can survive getting close." So that makes them valuable.