Micah blinks. There were a lot of words in there they didn't understand, which is a novelty. A really delightful novelty.

"Well, we don't have true FTL travel," they hedge, wobbling a hand. "Before jump tech, all we had was generation ships. That's how the first colony was settled -- Alpha Colony. But what's eezo? Or the mass effect, for that matter? And -- Prothean archives? On Mars?"

Sorry, Kaidan, you just triggered A Hundred Questions Mode.