TAGON: These people... they've been alive for millions of years in a virtual world?
ENNESBY: Yup. And I'm told it's pretty nice in there.
TAGON: Why do they want real-world stuff? Life out here is very tooth, claw, and tentacle.
ENNESBY: Why do Earth people name their largest spacecraft after craters and comets?
TAGON: Lots of people name weapons after scary things.
ENNESBY: Nope. “Extinct people don't have space programs.”