You talked to the ship. How did you- ...Forget it. That wouldn't even be the weirdest thing I've heard this Jaunt.

[He's streaming his voice so Phillip gets to hear his exasperated sigh. Going from a low-tech world to all of this is hard enough. Add into that all of his friends being either missing or Infiltrated, and everything with the portals... Little wonder he's hit the point where he's stopped trying to understand half of what's going on.]

So how does a ship start thinking it's a bunch of dead people?