Aww, thank you Kaytara and Aaron! If it's OK with you, I am totally stealing the 'wacky hijinks' phrase and incorporating it into the story, I really needed a descriptor like that for a certain bit.
Nah, Discord has a really good point -- all we've seen so far is /, which really isn't crack, even if they happen to look like /. However, I kinda needed to put all the gen stuff in now so that what happens later makes sense, and I *can* promise that things are about to get a whole lot crackier before everyone gets themselves straightened (no pun intended!) out again! ...
ETA: Oh, also @ golentan: That is way, *way* sweeter than any story dealing with that subject material had any right to be. I think I have a new ship!