You know, I've never been to a bar to drink? To gamble, once, but I don't think they'll want to see me again there any time soon.

[From the glint in Paul's eyes, it's not because he owes them money. He keeps his tone light as well, but he can tell it's a seed of thought planted in him already. Particularly in the context of what he's about to tell her, as he averts his eyes towards an interesting point in the middle distance.]

We don't have any robots. No AI. All of our thinking work is done by human minds. The Ixians - those are people from a world called Ix, just the one planet - have a handful of augmented humans, but it's not...orthodox.