[ Well it's always useful to know who to question if somebody puts a sword through you in a dark corridor, but Nathan would support any efforts to keep things off the network that were better conveyed in person. The network isn't just a resource that the communications department has access to. The pirates had been able to access it for days using the Scylla's communicators, and Ward and Resnik and Smiley all seemed to have access without limit, able to read and listen through barriers without even thinking about it. ]

That's right. If someone were to lead a rallying cry to steal all the shuttles, it'd be our department that ensured the shuttle bay was ready to rebuke the insurgents. In many ways we're the command center of the ship, though the Tranquility has no defined heirarchy like that. The department heads all have rules of seniority in place, and we all try to cooperate and make decisions together wherever possible.

[ He takes out the comms device and gestures to the right toward the stairs. ]

Shall we continue with the tour?