Neutron: Examine the OBSCENELY EXPENSIVE MODEL SPACESHIPS

Well, they're not that expensive, your team isn't flush with cash, but you sure have put a lot of time into them. You'd say between the scale model starships, the scale model space stations, and the scale model colony prefabs, you put about seven weeks of outrageously focused fascination into these things. Working on hobbies with your hands is nice.

You give it about four days or so before your focus wrings the last of the good brain chemicals out of these models, then they'll someday go into the boxes and perpetually stay there next time you move. The boxes piling up are arranged in strata like a geological sample: Here, see the audio engineering era, and there the home sourdough baking era, and look closely to see the layer where you spent eight weeks on custom-built virtual reality gear.

You ponder all the details of the Class E Mod Starbridge (Light Capital Class S-25 Starbridge C, Modification E), your very favorite of the ships from your very favorite shipwright group. While their organization dissolved a long time ago, the fond memories and the legacy they left behind have a grand effect these days.

Also this model has a bunch of little articulated doodads you put on it that make good clicking noises when you mess with them.

Neutron: Ponder the video game poster