[Cathaway makes a small sound in response - a laugh? Something near to it, maybe. Good humor, certainly. She continues her adjustments of the ship's exterior systems without looking up, but--]

We believe information is revealed to us as it is necessary to our goal. Still, if you wish to make guesses there are many possible options. Consider, for a moment, the fact that no host in our knowledge and no piece of us built this Station, and yet it is here. We know the symbiote could not, so who did? We also know that you and us and others like us were hunted in the places we came from.

[She does look up now, though her hands maintain their task.]

What does that suggest to you?