"I've mostly not talked with the people before but would be very happy to have the excuse to call them and help you with setting things up if that's cool? Or I could give you there numbers to do on your own if you'd rather."

"If you want an excuse to do clerical work for me I would not dream of stopping you."

"Good to hear!"

And so Lucien gets to email some of the coolest people! Said cool people turn out to want to know if Lorica can carry a super light weight camera drone, and if she can bring back plant and stool samples from the megafauna world.

"Almost certainly to both! Honestly I'd be kind of surprised if I left behind an entire heavy backpack."

"I think there are some nice hostile environment esper suits that you could get with this kind of money?"

"Sounds like the next best thing to my old supersuit. Do they fly? Mine could fly."

"I don't think they can? Lia has the jetpack but I'm pretty sure that thing is actually really dangerous if you don't have super durability."

"I would expect so, unless it was a Tinker jetpack, which presumably it is not."

Lia is actually on hand to answer this question!

"Yeah, my understanding is she doesn't use it when anyone else is nearby."

Nod.

Does she have opinions on the aesthetics? This place does custom designs for no additional charge. 

"My old one was navy blue and kind of scale-mail ish but it was trying to do different things, as long as it's not neon or something we're good."

"They need some sort of color pallet at least - I could go tell them to make it all navy blue?"

"I'm not attached to navy blue. Maybe mostly navy blue and, like, white and gold or something for details."

Lucien is useless at this but there's a color selector thing she can poke at?

Sure, pokepokepoke.

"You want me to put in the order now and you can pay me back when the money shows up from your megafauna reconnaissance?"

"Oh, I sort of thought the people who wanted the samples were shelling out."

"Oh, no, they were paying in cash and I don't expect you'll actually have the money until you start making runs for them?"

"Then yeah, if you're pretty sure they'll cough up I'll take a loan."