And Mark is going to be in a game...

[aspacepirate]

 So, you managed to get me in. (A slight grin.)   Of course, that could have went more smoothly but considering the circumstances? Good job, kid. Not bad for a legal eagle.

Well, it's not as good as being rescued and brought back to Earth, but sure...I'll take it. I can't really ask for much. Don't have to worry about starving there. Besides, booze. There's booze. I could use a few drinks to celebrate not dying.

But, it'd be nice to let the crew know I'm alive and well and somewhere somewhat more safe?  And that I don't blame them. They're probably beating themselves up or something. But, come on...you know and I know there wasn't another choice.

So, yeah, mind doing me another favor? Look for them. 

Do that and we're golden. Whatever you need, you got it.

Comments

[hawkingisabastard]

Tell me something. Was my monument to Stephen Hawking still there?

[aspacepirate]

If by monument to Stephen Hawking you meant rover poptents? Then yes.

[hawkingisabastard]

I mean the stacks of rocks visible from orbit that spell out "Stephen Hawking is a Bastard" He tricked Sagan into sending me to Mars with only 5 magazines.

[abadidea]

[Isaac doesn't actually know this guy, but he has a deep respect for him, just based off things his mun has told him. He can definitely relate to surviving a bunch of shit that should have killed you.]

You know, my mun's read your book three times? She says I should try to have your sense of humor. I tried to tell her I'm an engineer, and we have a lot of things in the 25th century that you guys didn't have. My job's a lot easier than yours. All she told me was I needed to botany better. I think she's biased.

[aspacepirate]

Really? I'm actually flattered by that. Though also concerned because I almost blew myself up and honestly that was not my proudest moment...

Really, a sense of humor never hurts. Though, okay, sometimes it can piss people off. Which makes it worth it. Entirely. But, not everyone has that and that's cool too.

(He shrugs at this next part.)

Well, she's not entirely wrong, everyone can stand to botany better. My mun especially. However, I think mad engineering skills are useful too.

[abadidea]

But you didn't, and that's what matters, man. Ask her about how I shot myself out of a space station like a cannon in the hopes of it getting me to the other side.

[Talk about proudest moments...]

Yeah, I know it can. My uh... [Well, she's not my girlfriend anymore, is she?] Ellie, she hates it.

Or at all? I've never grown anything in my life. [He grins.] And we'll have to see about that.