"It's not really urgent but, at least in the worlds Addy and I came from solar systems don't tend to have more than three or four stars."

"I think it's weird in our galactic neighborhood, too."

"It is, I checked."

"Who are the progenitors?"

"Sorry, it's just a generic term for people who came before. There's been bits of evidence for civilizations like that in a few worlds we've been connected to but we don't have any idea if they were all done by the same people, or in this case maybe it's just a weird coincidence."

"Setting up a system with this many stars seems like a weird pastime, but I guess I've seen weirder."

"If I could do that I think I would, but I'd probably do a lot of other things too."

"Maybe they ran out of other things to do. Or really needed a whole bunch of planets all near each other for some reason, or their cosmologists got into an argument and solved it with stellar-forming."

"With that sort of resources you can probably afford to do a lot of different things all at once."

"Yeah. It'd be fun."

"We can play around with stellar engineering at some point. I've dabbled in the past."

Heeeeee. "Maybe I can make an even more stupidly complicated system."

"Maybe, the hard thing is making it stable."

"It'll be a challenge, then."

"I bet you can manage."

"I bet I can."

"I think we probably picked right having Addy as your greeter the two of you seem to have a lot in common."

She laughs. "I think we do."

"It's nice."

"You're fun."

"Thank you. You're fun too."

"What else can I practice now?"

"The next thing in the series would probably be to try the same thing with the chemical restraints you mentioned in your system. If you wanted to go at the same goal in another direction you could work on making yourself move faster, lift more weight, or react faster than you would normally be able to."

"I think I'd rather try stuff I can more clearly visualize the results of first..."

"Do you want to try working on this here or would you rather another locale? I have a few playgrounds, a ropes course... and also a gym set up to measure things precisely."