Harnessed a star? How...? How could anyone manage to do that? [It's probably obvious to anyone -- even anyone not linked by brains that the gears in his head are turning. Trying to figure out how you could possibly use a star's internal fusion to do anything but be crushed and burned and obliterated. The gravitational pull alone should do any ship in...]

Sorry, I... I was a pilot, for a while. I've been in space longer -- Curiosity got the better of me.

[Then she asks, and the curiosity and whirling thoughts turn to something more... fond.] Something like that. We're... apparently the only ones who stand a chance against them.