It sure is a story, one Aloy isn't sure she wants to tell yet, but she guesses if anyone's going to understand, it's someone who has spent a good deal of their career in space.

Luckily, she has a moment with which to stall, which she does by firing the gun. Not quite on target, just yet--there are adjustments to be made as she gets used to the weight of it in her hands and the way it moves when she fires.

"Our Earth had to start over." She thinks that will explain the advanced, yet somehow ancient technology in her domain, alongside more primitive elements. "The spacefarers, they left a thousand years ago, after things got bad. When they came back, they didn't exactly like what they saw."