He wanted straightforward? Fine. He'd get straightforward.

"You know how many goddamned years I spent watching my dream rust away, waitin' for someone, anyone, to tell me that they'd brought back the Space program? And then when you finally get up the fucking nerve to come what's it for? To try and take the last ship I got because apparently the motherfucking Highwind ain't enough when you want to go haring of after an Ifrit-blasted, motherfucking pansy-ass momma's-boy with a planetary deathwish!"