Ruri looks over Taryon and nods a bit, he does have the air of brilliant but a difficult personality that most of the Nadesico's crew had. Even if he talked like magic was real, who knows maybe it was in his world. She nods and replies in her usual deadpan.

"To be fair, the Nadesico had an engineering team of 8 people. But there were also the Astevalus to maintain and they got used a lot. But the chief was.... Crazy. I mean the entire crew was picked because they were the best even if they had personality issues. But he was able to almost give life to his devices."