Yeah, Ripp has a "bit" of a potty mouth. *snicker* To say the least. He's a very casual swearer, I'm sure you've noticed. He uses it for emphasis, when he's angry, when he's trying to be funny, and so on. He's developed that over many years of trying to be as offensive as possible to Buzz and Tank (Buzz really hates cursing). Now it's like second nature for Ripp to swear, so he rarely goes through a sentence or two without adding a little flourish. He's largely unaware of it, and barely notices all the f-bombs he leaves in his wake.

Neither Ripp nor Buzz would be very pleased to know about what Genesis has been up to. But will they find out? Does anyone besides Genesis even know about it? I wonder...

Yeah, who knows what might happen once that camo paint comes off... it's Tank's symbolic moment of transformation, isn't it?

Thanks. I'm glad you liked the bit about the alien customs. I wasn't entirely sure that it would make sense at first. I'm not really much of a science fiction writer, so I shy away from going into too much detail there. Like, I call them simply "aliens" because I would feel weird giving them any kind of proper name. The customs and some other biological details will be revealed though, in limited detail.