[He's a tough little guy. He's been through much, much worse. To the point where he couldn't move, where he would drain the life out of whatever insect or vermin wandered within reach just to keep going.

He's come a long way from eating rats.]

It was a ship we ran into like any other planet system. It was... sending out these insect people. They couldn't speak to us. They were acting like they were possessed.

We found out that they were sick. Some kind of parasite had infected their colony and driven them all to insanity and a sort of undead state, so then we...

[His voice hitches unexpectedly. He clears his throat and goes on.]

... we purified the ship, and then we told their people what had happened. They didn't want the ship back, so we repurposed it.