In the middle of awkwardness that Lynn, Patrick, and Clara were participating in, Nathan was walking in their direction to those loners who were surprised by the amount of personnel that was stationed inside of the lower deck of the SDC main base. Nathan was walking alongside Laura, both of them were saluted by all of the personnel that they walked past.
"Commander Grant, how's your day?" Nathan asked Patrick.
"What? Commander Grant? Since when this base became so formal?" Patrick asked because of the sudden culture shock that he got due to the fact he didn't remember that the base had this much personnel. It was one or two people in the base beside the original contractor, but once Patrick took another look, there might be hundreds of new personnel inside of that base.
