[Part of Ratchet wondered if there weren't a lot of things here that people called "magic" that weren't just some physical phenomenon they didn't have the understanding or language for yet. Like how you tell little kids fairytales about tiny technomites making technology work until they're old enough to understand it.

Not that he was going to say that to anyone's face any time soon.]

Yeah, that's what we would call it back home. But...what kind of changes are we talking about? Gene- er, lineage factor changes seems like they would be...pretty drastic?