He's really cool! [Yes. Cool.] He's my first friend here... and ever. He's an astronaut, and before that a pilot. He designed the Farscape One module, and explained a lot about America, and caught me up five centuries on Earth. [And wormholes! Which he won't mention, ditto that the Farscape was designed to use gravity etc.] I was really lucky to meet him. He told me about karaoke, and Muppet movies. And he won the first drinking contest on the ship after 17 cups. I had to stop after only 9. [He has no idea if he's giving a weirdly skewed impression of the astronaut or not, but yes, Nobunaga really admires Crichton.] Every time I think something about this place or the people should be avoided, like the drinking game, or disco, or karaoke, or Muppets, he's right in the thick of it, making it sure it's cool and interesting, and ready to explain it even though I feel like a caveman with so many people centuries in my future taking things for granted.

He's a non-combatant though. Not a soldier, an explorer. Like Amerigo Vespucci. That's... an explorer from my times. America the continents and country are named after him. He wasn't a soldier either. And even though I'm so at odds with everyone here, and even in my own time, Crichton always treats me like... a regular person. No matter what my weird questions are, or how crazy I get, he just takes it in stride. [Nod nod.]