Ben was running through a mission of his own. Phase one involved food: preferably at an all-you-can-eat restaurant with the spiciest menu on the planet. Phase two involved shopping, preferably for one set of dark clothes suitable to sneaking around a cavernous colony ship and one set of something completely unremarkable for their destination. Step three was "go back to another restaurant," but step four... he doubted that even their ship could fake an entire planet. If he could pull it off without arousing suspicion, Ben wanted to ask some of the locals questions about transdimensional travel and the Ohm.

As long as no one tried to kill him, it still counted as a vacation, right?