It's the not knowing that eats at people, allied or enemy. Ted guessed if Damon HAD close friends they were as strung out by his behavior as anyone else.

"You should stop in more often, visibly, and get some briefings." Actually no that'd put him in proximity again. "... I'd say it's the usual but lately all anyone wants to talk about is the 'invasion' of these Voidtreckers and all the things they're surely up to." He crosses his arms over his chest, tone and expression suggesting he thinks it's all nonsense. "But since there's only rumors and no-one has any actual evidence.."

A pause. "Well, I'm not sure anyone's taking it too seriously but we're all supposed to be keeping tabs out in order to keep everyone happy." Everyone being the citizenry of course, the rest can just suffer with the game.