I somehow doubt anything we actually do or desire has any bearing on how soon we are sent back home, if ever.

We are stuck together, and the people from home who already know you will not always be themselves. We should have a familiarity with eachother as a group, if only so when we are stuck investigating with people we are not friends with we know what topics to avoid discussing and who has what skills.

Right now I personally could not tell anyone who to go to for assistance in much of anything.