[ Well, he's got a lot of people to chat with now, but that's not really something that's going to keep him from talking to her too. Just divides his attention a little bit. ]

Now we let the huddled masses huddle and find a way to save our asses en masse. Contact made with the network back home is promising, but until there's a good scale for how close they are to us, I don't see any point in waiting around.