Since we've made contact with the others and--

[A brief glance at N again, though he doesn't comment explicitly, it's kind of complicated to figure out what to call the guy still.]

... It might go faster and smoother to let us handle some of it. We have experience, after all.

[Like, he himself isn't particularly knowledgeable still about the nuts and bolts (that's a little too literal at this point) but it looks like some people have ideas.]