"I wonder if the toasters got to Andromeda?" Velia mused, staring into space for a moment.  She didn't bat an eyelid at Vitiafa sidestepping her question... "From what I know of what happened back then the problem might have arisen in Sol, so they might have.  Hmm... I only hope that there is still an Earth to find and we don't find some irradiated hell-hole and have to go back to the drawing board about where to take this old ship."

She shrugged as if to say there wasn't much to be done about it anyway and took another swig of her drink, "What are you hoping to find in the Sol system?  Assuming of course, that we ever get to it."