36.      Asteroid Movers

Howard oversees surveillance drone operations at Landing and conducts personal business, including quality-testing homemade whiskey with Dr. Bridget Sheehy and meeting informally with her and Stéphane to establish unofficial communication channels outside the colony committee structure.

Howard watches Riker conduct a video visit with their human descendants on Romulus, where Julia reports three new pregnancies and Justin eagerly asks about dinosaurs. During the call, a colonist named Richard criticizes the FAITH colony's environmental practices, prompting Howard to text Riker that he'll investigate Cranston's repeated boundary-pushing. Howard then oversees the launch of sixteen surveillance drones around Landing with Guppy, an AMI/GUPPI hybrid system, and plans to integrate Cupid Bug hunter units into the central controller. He calls Dr. Sheehy to check on a chemical analysis of homemade whiskey he's produced. Bridget confirms it's safe to drink and tests it herself, joking about its harsh quality and sharing an Irish story about a Brit mispronouncing "cheers" as "chairs." Later, Howard arranges for Bridget and Stéphane to meet at a bar, where the three discuss coordinating information outside official committee channels due to the committee's bottlenecking of communication. The meeting is friendly and productive.