"What? Pff, no. Used to be actual person." Cayde flicks at a speck of glitter that catches his eye there on the bar, cupping his chin with the other hand as he sets his elbow on the counter again.

"Upgrade kind of covers it. There's more of us Exos back home, not a whole lot, but what there are, that's all who exists now. No one's building anymore since the Collapse, all that tech long lost. Hell, we don't even know how we work."