Yup, pretty much. In this setting, Kaban and Serval have been together for around 10 years by this point, though you wouldn't know it to look at them, since Friends don't seem to age (although, like most things to do with spans of time, this is only vaguely implied in the original).

>Mordin. Spastic scientist. Much to write about. Little time.
>
>Yeah, I can see how writing Mordin could be easier once you get in the
>groove.

There is a truly wondrous Mordin scene in the next Shepard's 11, which I am really looking forward to sharing with the class, if I can ever get the rest of the cast to answer the god damned phone.

>Well, well. Time to break out my old school tabletop books. Does
>Renraku bear any resemblance to the Shadowrun megacorp of the same
>name?

It does. Of the two most prominent worlds in the Co-Prosperity Sphere (New Japan and Tomodachi), New Japan is much more cyberpunk.

>>that particular old book in the Professor's library - A copy of
>>the 2295 Expanded Edition of Carl Sagan's Cosmos.
>
>Interesting that Kaban has the frame of reference to understand a book
>like this, not that I've read it.

It's written to be as accessible to the layperson as possible—that was kind of a thing with Carl Sagan—and it's entirely possible that A) she had to read a number of other books before she was ready to take it on and B) she didn't really get 100 percent of it. (The chapter telling the story of the Heike crab, for instance, would have been mystifying without any context about medieval Japanese history.) Still, Kaban is very clever.

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