"They've got domes now," Amos said, doing his best to follow the conversation and stay on track. But he wasn't great at that even at the best of times and he was definitely not at his best just then. "On Mars. They've been working on terraforming but I guess it hasn't been going great. Still, Martians make the best gunships in the galaxy, so I guess they've got that going for them." They had to have something to lord over Earth and the Belt, anyway. Not that Amos cared about any of the factions to choose a side. He hadn't claimed Earth in years, but he had friends from all three. Hard to play favorites when it was so easy to see the balance from the outside.
He reached up and rubbed at the back of his neck, drawing a hand down over his beard before it dropped back into his lap. Having someone there to talk to - even if they weren't talking about anything important - at least helped distract the part of his brain that kept cycling over the same nightmare. "There's settlements all the way out," he said. "Mars is the last rock with people living on the planet itself but a lot of the moons have research facilities on them, at least. Or they've got stations in orbit. Once they perfected the fusion drive, there was nothing stopping anyone. Time wasn't really an issue anymore. That's what-" he paused for a second, not entirely sure why, except that he didn't really talk about his job much and it seemed like it was a lot more impressive now than it was three-hundred years in the future. "I'm just a mechanic," he said. "My boss does the real work on the drives."
Which was, honestly, his answer to Matt saying that he was just a lawyer. Lawyers were smart. They were useful. Some of them actually tried to help people once in a while. As far as he was concerned that was a lot better than being able to weld a ship back together under thrust. Naomi was the real brains on the Rocinante. He was the brawn. And he was totally comfortable with that. Someone had to be. And he was good at it.
"Lawyers are still important," he offered. "Even when I'm from." When, not where. "Not that I've ever needed one."