"Yeah - Pops and Mama Sofia and the older folk talk about it sometimes, how when goblinization hit you had like, half the world thought it was the best thing since sliced bread and the other half thought it meant the end times had come." She smiles in a sad way; at least before the rig, there was almost always someone trying to kill them right that second, and no time to remember and feel sad about home.

"Turned out it didn't mean much of anything, really. Maybe things will settle that way for you guys, over time? It took a good fifty years or so to reach equilibrium, doesn't look like you guys've been spiking for that long."