"I'm pretty good at most things. But soup goes a long way when you have to feed a bunch of people, so I could get started on some of that." He doesn't want to get in his way. But the scruffy dude with the metal arm seems pretty friendly so maybe he won't snap at him?

He's just used to most scruffy guys he knows being super strict military types. Excuse him. It's the look.

He starts looking for the potato-like tubor of the moment because almost every world has them and if this is an Earth, he's going to wager there's some version. They always make a good soup base. "So have you been on the train for a while? This seems pretty easy going as far as missions go."