Quote:
it's starting to come back... you have vague memories of the toys you used to build yourself as a kid... the man who took you under his wing and taught you new tricks, new ways to give new life to old used-out and worn-out equipment...
What was his name?
What planet was that?
Squat remembers his home planet,
Niven's World, with its 3.2g gravity and perennial storms. And he remembers
'Chief' Kobayashi, the head mechanic of the colony taking a shine to him, impressed by the promising ingenuity of his early trinkets. He was the first to get him into a workshop, with access to proper tools and techniques, and functioned as a much needed father figure to Squat.