"Empire? Y'all mean the United States? Yeah, that used to be a thing. States still are, but not so much the empire part. Though that gang I told y'all about, the Government, they're still playin' at havin' things under control. Right now, they're busy makin' a land grab for Canada durin' the zed chaos and snatchin' up my people like boogeymen." He spits again; he really doesn't like this particular entity or the people behind it and that gesture seems to be how he expresses it.

He listens raptly, maybe a little wide-eyed, at Blaze's explanation. "Shoot. I don't know what else to say other than all that what you just said sounds so dang cool. Of course a big metal miss like y'all is out there at the front, guns blazin'. Hence the name, I bet! Y'all are somethin' else and I gotta say it; I'm glad to have met y'all."