The Lab
Meg nodded, and said "I think having Bella will keep them very firmly grounded. At least, while she's a little girl. Who can get too big of an ego when they have to change a stinky diaper? I babysit a lot, but not all the time. Now, you two should see my plans for the Ark. Come this way. . . " She led the way down a corridor and to a window that looked out into the blackness of space, away from the dazzling light of the sun, and they could see the beginnings of a positively enormous gantry beginning to take shape as she said "As you can see, I'm pretty good at multitasking. Right now I'm assembling the gantry to put the Ark together, if I give it more attention, I can have the actual hull assembled in less than six months. The stardrives are ready, but the inertial compensation mechanism is still a touch buggy. Grav shielding keeps the hull from being spattered with impacts, it's low strength at rest and gets stronger as the ship would move. I've got a thorough scan of a number of extra-solar objects out there I can also utilize and convert to materials, most of them are big enough I've tried to avoid pulling them into easy working distance because I didn't want to go panicking the astronomy circles."