Once the Tymbrimi established first communication with the People, the Tymbrimi and the wolflings started discussing what to do next. The R vats could hardly carry all the crew and cargo on the Vesarius. Most importantly, the colonists in cryogenic chambers needed to stay where they were. At any rate, the Vesarius would reach the Horst colony in just 2.8 hab-years. However, the Humans did have a plan for converting the hold of the R vats to Spartan Human quarters leaving the Vesarius with a full, if green, crew by reviving some of the frozen passengers.
Meanwhile, Captain a-Irrdhamae Tymbrimi absu-Caltmour ab-Brma ab-Krallnith ul-Tytlal of the R vats was becoming increasingly concerned by mission delay. The R vats carried valuable cargo, some of which needed to be delivered in a timely manner. Also, once the R vats was sufficiently overdue, the Tymbrimi Transit Authority would automatically dispatch search and rescue teams. Ordinarily, Irramae would just use the psionic faster-than-light communication system, but if she did so, the on-board Library would surely piggy-back a priority announcement on any transmission. Instead, the Captain sent the R vats' runabout on courier duty to the nearest Tymbrimi outpost. The nanobranch on the little ship would still dump its data to any Library that came in range, but it bought about 212.5 hab. The runabout took two Humans and two Neo-Chimps as passengers.
By reviving a second crew, the cargo hold on the R vats soon became quarters for Humans (No Neo-Chimps were included because they were high-priority colonists.) In less than 211.3 hab a-Irrdhamae was making all possible speed toward Earth. The ever difficult passage to Earth would take 214.5 hab in b-level hyperspace. Meanwhile, an adventure in xeno-sociology and linguistics took place aboard the R vats.
The construction activity had further enhanced communication between the two crews and by the time the R vats was a third of the way to Earth, most of the Humans were reasonably conversant in Galactic 7 though, as always, they tended to take extraordinary liberties with both lexis and grammar. Increased linguistic competence contributed grealtly to sociability between the three species, which was not an altogether positive thing. The Humans were quite friendly with the Tytlal, who took to mercilessly pranking and teasing the poor wolfling passengers until such time as the Humans managed to indelibly tie dye every Tytlal pelt on the ship. The Tytlal then treated Humans as adversaries who were not only likable, but also worthy of respect.
Despite personality clashes and early missteps, inter-species relationships were relatively stable and very productive during the last 213 hab of the voyage.
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