"You've asked many questions about my background. I'm usually not inclined to ask personally revealing questions in turn."

So he wasn't going to ask about the past.

"Perhaps one about your future then, instead of the past: when you leave this place and go home, what will you bring with you?" A pause. "You can interpret that as some kind of existential or philosophical question, but there's also knowledge. Technology -- we would allow you to have some."

It was something they all needed to think about. Even now. There was so much they could take with them and the Legion didn't particularly plan on barring them from much of it.