"There are tons of other inhabitable planets out there! But as it happens, I don't actually live on one of'em. Gaignun and I've got a colony - but we're allied with Second Miltia in the Miltian star system, so I guess you can say I'm down there a lot ... though that's probably a name only familiar to me, on this ship." He gave a quick shrug. He would have actually been surprised if anyone came out one day and said they knew what he was talking about.

"And you came here before you could figure that out?" It sounded almost like that, from what Howard said. "Separate dimension sounds a little more fun than the other two."