NARRATOR: Meanwhile, 920 light-years coreward from Uuplech...
(unknown, inside ship): [alien speech]
NARRATOR: The language these sophonts are aromatically emitting is a monothermal dialect of Galstandard Brown, syntactically dominated by gas-phase polycyclic hydrocarbons.
alien 1: [alien speech]
alien 2: [alien speech]
NARRATOR: The conversation is wordplay in which hydroxyl-bond similarities across a group of carbohydrates are exploited for ambiguity and conflation, yielding the boorish, malodorous equivalent of the pun.
Contextually, it's casual conversation interrupted by violent non-sequitur.
(unknown, inside ship): [alien spe
NARRATOR: "Accidental last words."