Alright, alright… you got me !
But we keep this between us, yeah?

The Arks aren’t as sealed off as people think. There’s a whole smuggling network running shuttles between the surface and the tech holds. They go by the name of the Ghost Barge. 

But it took an entire clan’s fortune for Shinji to buy a spot, so hush!
Shinji’s dead if he goes back to the ground… it wasn’t exactly a loan.