"I've been looking for something connecting everyone and coming up blank. Having access to medical files might help, but not everyone here is even human, let alone alike in any other particular way. It's been slow going."

Ratchet rubs his fingers over his mouth, trying not to look weary.

"'Too damn busy to have time to be randomly kidnapped and shoved onto a frozen howling alien wasteland' is a common theme, but I'm not sure that has anything to do with why we were taken."