Heh, I may just be a little easy to impress. 'Powers' weren't exactly a reality in my world. [ He pauses, because that's not quite right. ] Well, except in the case of a select few. Even then, it wasn't exactly the same.

[ And while he doesn't often share much about his past, Neil readily takes the change of subject when it's offered, if only because it really isn't his place to explain Innovades and Innovators. ]

My story? Let's see... before coming here I was a pilot of large machinery, the kind that could operate both in Earth's atmosphere and space.