"He did, yeah," Jazz said as he handed the datapad over, smiling humourlessly, "I didn't quite have ta make it an order, but I told him I would if I had to. Cliffjumper's difficult but not impossible." The humourless tone disappeared under a sharply amused smile.

"At least like this, we ain't gonna have to scramble the last day or so if we'd found this out then and had to change things around."

Frankly, whatever the frustrations right now, it was probably far calmer than anything else that might have happened if they'd had to order/convince Cliffjumper to go just a day before they were due to leave...