[He doesn't sigh. He doesn't sigh with the very practiced effort of someone who has spent quite a long time forcing himself not to sigh eve when he may believe the situation called for it. Instead he takes a slow, steady, silent breath, and answers after a pause, the long second of silence filling the sigh for him.]

You can apply yourself to learning after you return. Many starships have many similarities, and those we requisition are modified to push those similarities further. What is it they have on earth- [There is a pause, remembering a word he rarely uses, not a necessity for most who had been hosts as long as he had.] automobiles. If you can drive one, you can drive most others adequately, if not with great skill.

[Most ships they requisitioned were modified until they began to approach the ships the Nest itself favored, connected seamlessly to the pilot's mind, inoperable by anyone but a host. But the young ones were too unpredictable and too weak in their connection, so the first few were simply changed to be familiar. In truth, truly advanced Hosts rarely required a ship catered to them, capable of tapping into the knowledge of past Hosts to operate nearly everything, but there was a comfort to it. Something like how the walls of the station curved, perhaps.]

Many missions will utilize some form of starship. Your training will eventually include standard piloting, but that is Cathaway's realm, and she prefers to wait to handle the group until they are more grounded. Individuals are encouraged to learn whatever they wish, and to improve themselves in whatever ways they can.

[Said with the implication that anyone worthy would want to improve themselves.]