NARRATOR: The Gavcorps vessel Notteri Again, home to the Diversity Engineering Institute.
CIKITSAKA: Welcome, baseliners!
Yes, here at D.E.I. have a word for you, and we use it with no denigration whatsoever.
CIKITSAKA: You were told as a child that you were special, you were unique, and that nobody else but you could be you.
One frozen millennium later you accidentally created a world in which, for you at least, that was not true.
CIKITSAKA: You're not unique anymore. Hundreds of millions of people can be you so convincingly that sometimes you lie awake and wonder if perhaps there really is a spiritual component to humanity, a soul, because it feels like the gate-cloning somehow stretched yours across nine hundred and fifty million reanimated corpsicles.
I know this because I used to be a baseliner. I was you.
CIKITSAKA: Please hold your questions until the end of the presentation. We already know what you're going to ask.
Illustrating why all of you are here to begin with...