Jim groans, but applauds a little, conceding to her skill. He's disappointed, but a little impressed regardless. And much as he hates to lose, he has to admit that there's no shame in being fairly beaten. Especially with the possibility of a future rematch.

"It was kind of a variety pack," he says, as he puts away his cue stick. He reaches out to the table and pushes the cue ball and his last solid in by hand, so everything's put away for the next person. "Warp theory and design, mechanical engineering, some xenolinguistics, basic astrophysics and navigation. Plus the combat and survival stuff. Basic field medicine. I had to get some of it out of technical journals and periodicals, but some of it was kind of... on the job training."


[ooc: No worries! I've missed a few too over the past couple days. Had one delayed over five hours while subsequent comments got through just fine. Weird stuff.]