[Ian doesn't have to worry - Robert wouldn't be the type to ever do something like that to anything, sapient or otherwise - but especially not a sapient. Not like he can tell that right now, but...]

... Duly acknowledged. However, it would be something I would be more than willing to undertake the study of myself, simply for the knowledge of it. While I am here I may as well spend the time diversifying my intellectual background... being trained in astrobiology ordinarily does not lend itself to the medical sciences, but Luceti has been something of an incentive to look outside of my field.

I presume that this is your typical occupation, then? [Otherwise Ian wouldn't have mentioned the usual price, Robert supposes.]