"I'll be happy to answer those questions I'm sure," she said, smiling, "though, with everything I've learned so far, I'm not sure the universe I inhabit is all that particularly familiar to me. I will spend quite some time consulting our anthropologists once we're about the Dauntless, this assembly has tested the limits of my experience, I'm afraid, I don't usually deal with quite so many peoples of such influential size."<br/><br/>She was indeed, treading beyond her normal experience. Dealing with single-star nations was easy enough. She put them at ease when the Var encroached on a nearby star, met with them, learned about them, and then ultimately settled the matter. With such a gathering as she was attending now, it was much more complex, something she hadn't really be able to prepare for adequately, and so she'd be playing catch-up once she got her quarters aboard the Dauntless.