"Oh, right. So it ain't just that they got good deflection but they got a structure hard to find at distance an' some variance in how they're all put together? From the sound of it, anyhow. I mean, if I was gonna take a party on a ship like that, I'd have a hell of a time weedin' it out of an asteroid field an' then it'd be a whole lotta 'good luck findin' the back door, folks'."

He's definitely interested in the talk, though. It's been so long since he flew that he aches for it, and he actually sits climbs up onto and sits on the foot of the mech like he's making himself comfortable to continue the conversation.

"I wish one of these damned missions would let me get in the cockpit again. Even if it weren't a ship I was familiar with, I'd learn it quick as I could just to feel it again."