Once again demonstrating he could<em>still</em>here her, he spoke up again. "It's a Mark VIII Daedalus Class Terraforming Unit Miss<em>Iabara</em>. " pointedly stressing her name in it's correct pronunciation.<br/><br/>"It's damned sensitive, and notoriously unreliable, but it's all the company saw fit to grace us with. One electrical malfunction means half a dozen mechanical malfunctions the technicians havn't even found yet. Have fun." Then...perhaps because he suddenly remembered that he wasn't in the military anymore, he suddenly stopped and gave her the same irreverent tongue potrusion she had given him when she though he wasn't looking.<br/><br/>While they didn't need the Terraformer to make the environment breathable the massive machine would still be useful in clearing trees and even leveling hills for farmland, and diverting rivers for irrigation. Even if they'd been saddled with a less than reliable model, it would still save them months, maybe even years worth of work and let them quickly get the colony up and running.<br/><br/>Nodding once in affirming satisfaction, he turned to exit the breifing area. "If anybody has any questions, I'll be on the bridge until 0900."