"We got all sorts here, really. My pop is nisei - second generation out of Japan. He was born in the US, back when it was the US, but they were born in Yokohama." Saturday herself would be yon or go-sei, her father being unusually long-lived, except that everyone gave up counting after the homeland went isolationist and the corps broke the continental US up in fiefdoms.

She nods at Oichi's outfit. "I think you might be from what I'd call the past, though. That outfit is kinda old-fashioned." And, call it a vibe, she doesn't seem like someone who has a point of reference for the grimy, industrial rig.

"He sounds like he was a nice guy," she says, when Oichi mentions her first husband.