Harper decided then that this guy would get along well with Dylan. He probably got all the girls he could want as well.

"Aliens." The engineer finished the sentence. "You should meet some of the ones where I'm from. Give you nightmares. Not that it's all bad. Y'know." He nodded. "Been here and there across the known systems. Seamus Zelazny Harper, chief engineer of the Andromeda Ascendant ." No fake rank this time and he even offers a hand while the other one is pocketing food. Old habits.