"Of the two of us, you're the only one who had parents," Tarantulas says archly. "I was forged. I came out of the ground at Eugenesis and was immediately snapped up by a courier company that had me making deliveries between the Lithium Flats and those snobs up in Altihex for the next five thousand years. Worst years of my life, and I'm counting the centuries I spent trapped in my own torture dimension."