I'm tough as nails. [ He's cried enough already, okay? People who he thought were his family thinks he's a traitor back where he just came from. At least he doesn't sound like he had been crying. Murphy's pretty good at masking his feelings when he needs to. ]

Alright. [ Murphy sighs, settling him all nice and cozy. ] I got nothing better to do. I am not too keen on my timeline. Cryosleep. [ Murphy clears his throat. ] So about two hundred years ago an A.I, they called her A.L.I.E, decided the best way to help humanity was to kill it. So she nuked the whole planet.

Before that, there was a colony of stations, one from each nation. When that happened they joined together and they called it The Ark. Biblical, I know. So a hundred years pass and the council, who has floated people for any sort of crimes, felony to petty. I was one of the one hundred to be locked up because we weren't 18 at the time. They'd all float us, then. Instead of doing that, they sent us to Earth. You know, to see if it was habitable. Didn't care if we died, just wanted to see.

God, I'll need a glass of water. [ Because this isn't even the tip of the iceberg. ]