NARRATOR: Aboard Cindercone...
KATHRYN: Ventura! I'm sending you some abstracts.
PARA: Some what?
KATHRYN: On Esspererin physiology. Dig deep, and find out what motivates them. We need "biological imperative" stuff.
PARA: Why me? I'm robotics, not... meat-plumbing.
PARA: And this isn't even physiology. It's late-phase output from somebody's iterative mechanical replication experiment.
Mother of chrome... They're solar powered robo-fairies.
KATHRYN: And that's why I picked you.