[Oh, Baker is really quite an endearing representative, in his way.]

It makes perfect sense, thank you. I think that sets a decent groundwork to start working with. Not that anyone can work out all the cultural nuances of a community in another time and place in the space of one or two briefings, but we may as well try.

I'm terribly sorry, by the way, to hear about the loss of Admiral Wilforth. Can I ask...how many hands were lost in the accident?