"Oh, not just an astronaut, a full blown space explorer!" He's grinning, because of course that's exactly what a kid would want to do. "A galaxy-roving crew member, getting to meet aliens and do cool science experiments on different worlds. I really loved sci-fi books as a kid, if you couldn't tell."

He grows more sombre as Padme voices her concerns.

"Yeah. Yeah, it's a lot to be thinking about right now. These guys don't exactly seem like they care for a moral compass, huh." Jim isn't really worried about himself, but the people around him? What if something happened to them, to his students and colleagues when they aren't even involved? That'd make him feel rotten.