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[heypartner]

Well, I don't know about you folks but now that we're back I'm done livin' on ships.

[ A slightly ironic statement to make since Cobb is clearly sitting outside the hangar. ]

So, I'm doin' somethin' about it. I've told a few of you my plans but this is for everyone else that hasn't heard. I'm gonna move out of the First Breath and fix up a house. One somewhere I can pen up some glownies and start ranching them for food and wool. Then I'm gonna fix up the house next door and whoever wants it can have it.

And then move on to the next. And the next. If you want a house somewhere else from where I end up, I'd be willin' to help out there as well.

[ There's a good amount of determination in his tone. Cobb's very clearly done with being a spacer. Stupid pipes everywhere on the First Breath. ]

If you wanna help out, I'd appreciate that but you don't have to. I took that Engineering data point so I understand how to do the work. I could try and teach folks who don't know construction but wanna help. I got tools and figure I'll salvage what I can from houses that aren't worth saving.

We got the bare bones of a town here. Might as well make an effort to build something from it.

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[dr_riley]

[That makes him bristle visibly. First, his expertise is snubbed, then all the hard work, impossible time management, and Red Bull that went into it! Skills and learning did not come for free, and despite how useful these expertise data point things were, no matter how much good could come from them, and regardless of how incredible the technology must have been to dump a repository of knowledge into a person's head without harming them was, it irks him like almost nothing else can, and his tone gets a bit clipped.]

RighT. The 'engineering in your head.' Did you have to press up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start for that?

[He's far too annoyed to realize or care that Cobb probably wouldn't get the cheat code reference.]

[heypartner]

[ Hm. Touched a nerve without meaning too. Interesting. Luckily, Cobb's a more reasonable person most of the time. ]

Nope, nothing so fancy. I take you don't want to help with deconstruction?

[ Which is fine. No one has to help. He's just gonna make sure he's got this one figured out first. ]

[dr_riley]

I brought back some small, remote-detonation explosives, but I'm saving them for an emergency. If you need something blown up, ammonium nitrate is usually easy to find or make.

[heypartner]

I'm thinking more careful deconstruction so we can reuse anythin' good. Explosions won't help with that. If I think of something you can help with, I'll give you call.