Yeah. It's... pretty messed up. They've already traveled through the universe and enslaved a bunch of other alien races too. Big nasty centipede-things and things that look just like the Wild Thing monsters, except deadlier.

[Aaaaand because he doesn't want to touch that topic, he goes for the shameless subject change.]

So what's he let you do? I might've just been hearing that wrong, but I coulda sworn he mentioned something about a 'proton canon'.

... Is that what I think it is?