"Oh? Interesting. It's... well. It's a wonderful place to study, not so wonderful if you want to see the outside world. Though I have a number of friends who did get their education there... their isolationist tendencies are starting to crack a bit now that we used some of their resources to fight to save existence."

He says it casually, even though he knows that it's going to just invite more questions. "But they're very stubborn... most of them, anyway. There's a reason that people who care about the wider world tend to leave."