So a captain or an engineer with experience on train-shaped voidcraft might be able to troubleshoot ours, if the basics are the same.
[Confirmation is good. Elidibus can worry about taboos and materials; Wash is going to move ahead with his inquiry.]
When we talked with the Voidtrecker Express earlier, it agreed to let a temporary captain on board to take a look at its engine room. Can you recommend a captain with train-shaped voidcraft experience who'd be sympathetic to [he gestures widely to the train] all of this?
[Wait.]
With the understanding that it would be a temporary visit, for troubleshooting only, and they would not be the train's new captain.
no subject
[Confirmation is good. Elidibus can worry about taboos and materials; Wash is going to move ahead with his inquiry.]
When we talked with the Voidtrecker Express earlier, it agreed to let a temporary captain on board to take a look at its engine room. Can you recommend a captain with train-shaped voidcraft experience who'd be sympathetic to [he gestures widely to the train] all of this?
[Wait.]
With the understanding that it would be a temporary visit, for troubleshooting only, and they would not be the train's new captain.