Liz shouldered the greenhouse tasks. Claude joined Daan and the others assembling lighting fixtures, rewiring heaters, and catching up on maintenance for the life support systems. The weather remained clear in the first months of storm season, so Yin and Yang continued fabricating building stones and harvesting atmosphere. Ruby split her time between moving stone with the jumpship and helping Daan's team. That left Emma free to redesign jumpship controls. She threw herself into the effort. Designing the interface was a good reason to contact her father. He never mentioned their last call on Earth and they fell into a familiar pattern. They had something to share now and he worked on the problem personally. She'd been worried he might object to stripping the unit from Rover One, but instead the project excited him. Demonstrating the adaptability of the unit was good for his company. Critics within MEX who had argued for simple buggies had to suspend their grumbling, since jumpships were vital to the colony plans.
