TAGON: By your leave, Cox'n?
NARRATOR: Aboard the free gunboat Bristlecone, which is in turn aboard the Oafan ship Mialhoua-Ua...
PARA: By all means, Captain.
PARA: I've got work here for Andreyasn, Foxworthy, and the mess crew. The rest of the company is yours.
TAGON: My company. Right.
(unknown): Whoa.
(unknown): Roomy.
MURTAUGH: Our clients appear to be claustrophobes.
TAGON: Secure that, Murtaugh.
SCHLOCK: If you need an aerial scout, I brought my plasgun.
TAGON: Noted. Keep it in your mouth.
HIOEFUA: Welcome afoot to Mialhoua-Ua, Captain Tagon! Honoring us, and her! This vessel is undoubting smaller than some you have victoriously underfooted afore, but for humble size she is remaining proud of age.
TAGON: There's nothing wrong with a solid, old vessel. Our current boat is six centuries old.
HIOEFUA: Six of great venerability, I am assuming, by your standards.
Mialhoua-Ua is boasting happy to be older than your race.
TAGON: Well... she doesn't look a day over forty thousand.