[ Vishkar. Definitely unfamiliar. Hard-light technology, though, that's familiar and immediately raises alarms -- Hard light tech was alien technology, not just Covenant but Forerunner tech, and any corporation that was able to regularly make use of it would definitely have raised more than a few eyebrows back where he came from. Using the tech to rebuild in the wake of a war . . . An admirable endeavor. ]

An architect, huh? So you did planning for those kinds of rebuilding projects? [ Entire cities built of light. He could only imagine. Fitting for something beautiful and wondrous to grow out of ruin, he supposes. ] Sounds admirable.

Military, for me. [ Technically ex-military, but well, who's even keeping track anymore. ] Another soldier in another war.

[ There's a bit of a sigh, some resignation in the way he says that, his eyes wandering back over to that crystalline structure, wondering briefly if there's any similarity between that in her hard light. A devastating war. It's just like what Natasha said, isn't it? There's always a war, no matter where people are from. ]