[ Ellever opens her mouth a tiny bit to object — and then closes it again. This is a comparison thing. They may have made some pretty drastic strides in the last hundred plus years, but this guy's got things back where he's from that would probably make scientists on Earth salivate. ]

It's — getting better? [ She shrugs. ] But yeah, no space travel. Our level of tech's more along the lines of the tablets here. Probably for the best. We'd just litter on other planets.