Yeah, he can build the car. With a lot of materials and the right resources, though. That's something that'd also need scrounging up.

And boy, if that let him play with time a little? He was absolutely going to exploit it.

"Yeah, there was one. They called it a 'Golden Age'. A long time ago, when we got our nice friendly Traveller. It made a bunch of hard rocks habitable, moons around jupiter sprouted life. Centaurs at the edge of the solar system could dream up honest to goodness flowers. It was a helluvatime.

"But when that age was done, ever'body who'd gotten used to a world where food and hunger and hate was all gone ended up dyin'. Back to one where only the toughest survived. Exos? Went from a small project to a decent hunk of our worldly population. Cause yeah, they were some of the toughest."