Not something desirable when there are violatile samples about, even if I mostly work with rock and metal ores. There's some energy research in the hopes of solving the Lambda so we can use it to go home, as well.

[That, admittedly, is going about as well as mercury flows like water, which means not at all. He sighs and shakes his helm before putting that thought aside.]

He's... ah. The type of individual who's very... er, persuasive. He has plans and ideas and if you can be of use or are useful to him, he'll be... very interested. [He shrugs, not quite comfortable with discussing it, but he's also not not going to say what he knows.]