"Yes, yes, and yes," he says with a small smile. "But they can also be triggered manually, if the internal sensors get knocked out or something. I don't monitor it all by myself; my senior crew usually do that, and alert me if there's something I've got to know. Or just something interesting."

Jim nods along with her complaints about paperwork, and she'll already have some idea the form that his must take, given the nature of the datapad lying on the table in front of him. "Yeah, it's a lot. I might spend a few hours a day just signing off requisitions."