"It won't be if I got a say in it. I'd like to get this done sooner than later. Got a post to get back to. And, y'know, friends 'n stuff I guess." The likelihood of people going home, even if they stopped the Calamity, were slim to nil, but Sparks refused to believe it.

"Lemme guess - ya come from a year that starts with a two, followed a zero. That's pretty much been the case of everyone else I've met from Earth here." It's like ancient history to him, but that seems to be the typical time span people from Earth seem to be from here. "Yep, there's natives, immigrants, terraforming, gravity adjusters, y'know. Makin' it livable for centuries now."