"I command a living ship, Vassa. I have no crew - it's easier that way." The Mariner sometimes works with her Sifa Gelfling to maintain the vessel and gather supplies, but she sails alone. She's fiercely independent.

skekSa figures Han is a lot younger and less experienced than she is - she is almost a thousand trine old (and, if you cound her time as an UrSkek, even older). Mistakes come with youth. He'll learn given time, and from the sound of things he's a quick learner.

"I've never met your kind before in all my travels. Can you tell an old lass what kind of creature you are? You're much too big to be a Gelfling."