"One military rank, one government title, and a complete absence of the aristocracy that seems to infest local space," Kaidan sums up, with a nod that takes in the ghem-ship they're on and the vor-planet it's inbound towards and an expression that remains slightly bemused by how entrenched the aristocratic lifestyle is, this many centuries into the future.

Glancing at the datapad, although he refrains from diving in and thus tormenting Micah while they're stuck with the sandwich, he admits that "Academic titles would have been interesting, if my life had taken another path. How did you land yours?"