Aidan shrugs at the compliment. "Not that great. Just a tweak here and there. Nothing fancy. You should see what the [i]Tellum-Priests[/i] back on Earth can do." He let's out a whistle and nods. "That's the real tinkering."

He looks at Val demonstrating her gun and scratches his beard. "Hm... Impressive. Gun and sword together -and- an EMP. That must be a pretty heavy pistol all together then. Just... don't hit that EMP to close to me. I have some cybernetics that might shut down." He looks down at his feet and murmurs to himself: "I should really get those upgraded... EMP shielding or something." He snickers and looks back at Val as she continues her talk.

"I can see you did your training though." His sight glide over her arms, upwards, and he gets distract for a split second by her breasts. He shakes his head as he notices he's staring and quickly looks back at her face. "A crossbow you said? An ancient weapon. But I like the combination with sword though." He looks at his empty cup and then at Val. He scratches his beard again and gets up from the chair. "Although... I don't see you wearing a lot of armor. One blaster shot and you'd be dead. Wouldn't want to lose a partner that quick. Lunt would be all over my ass if I did." He walks to some boxes, opens one up and starts rummaging in it. "Should be... somewhere... This it? Nah..." Some scrap and other gadgets get thrown aside as Aidan picks the contents of the box apart. "Ah! Here it is." He tosses a small box of metal with some wires to it to Valentisha. "Personal shield generator. Should be able to block some energy based shots."