[The words of encouragement and the promise to help do reassure Nathaniel, and he nods to Colin. Then he starts looking through the pictures, trying to find familiar faces.

After a while, he frowns. Not because he recognizes an individual person, but because of something else.]

Some of these people, they're Caels. Not anyone I recognize, but I know what my own people look like. There's a few Ura, too. But everyone else, they're a patchwork of different people from different planets.

But why are there Caels in that group? The Bastion, it ended up pretty close to the ruins of Caelondia. These people should have come across us first.