"Ah... sounds a bit similar to one of the superheroes I know of back home. Alien tech was going to make him help aliens take over, but he made friends with it, I guess. It's too bad your alien space thing was dedicated to being evil, but... good thing it's gone now." And that oversimplification is met with a simplification via being a third-hand account.

"I think I got a little turned around from following the ghost girl. Which way should I go to find the road again?"