"After the team was initially formed as a volunteer enterprise, the United Planets Council interfered -- as they so often do -- and instituted a draft. I was my planet's chosen candidate."

He was forced.

"We were able to to eventually get the draft rescinded but by then I'd grown accustomed to my lab in Legion headquarters."

It wasn't friendship that that'd made him stay. At least not at first. Mostly, he just liked having the freedom to do his own lab work in between his Legion duties.

His turn.

"What is the most advanced technology in your world? That you can think of."

He was curious about Saralegui himself, of course. Somewhat. But he was also curious about where he'd come from, what kind of world it was.