"A space colony, huh?" That sounded interesting. His thoughts immediately jumped to old anime shows he watched as a kid--when he had the time and permission to get a few in. He tried not to equate it to that but, well, it was easy to imagine crazy adventures in space happening as hilariously glorious as they were depicted in stories. At least it made for entertaining thoughts.

It took him a moment, but he had to remind himself that he was in space. Right here and now. And... it was boring. Until it wasn't. Until they ended up on a mission and the shit it the fan. Not all of them, but most so far.

"How is it? Traveling through space? I mean, we're in space right now but it's just a station here. When we travel it's just those teleporters. Is it just as boring or is being on a ship more exciting?"

He hadn't forgotten about the question of Jack's Captain status. The answer was curious. As if the man didn't really care about the title and that it meant very little. After all, he lumped them altogether simply and amiably. But not necessarily with pride or honor about any of it. Not in the manner that Zhao was searching for anyway.

It certainly made Jack interesting. And the amiability made him easy to chat with. So he wasn't complaining about the observation, just making it. If the title was throwaway then that left Zhao to play his usual name games. And that made him perfectly happy.