Equius had slowly been exploring the ship, starting with what appeared to be the upper-class areas and working his way downwards-- and now, finally, he was in purely functional areas, where engineers and such kept giving him odd glances and he kept looking down his nose at them (as well as one can when one is shorter than all the adults skittering around but the Dorfs).

Now, he's poking through the hangers, peering at the ships, and-- goodness, what is all that noise?

He goes to investigate, and discovers it is robots. Giant, elegant robots, far beyond anything he has ever made, with eyes that shine like there are stars caught in them, yelling at each other.

Excuse him while he stands at the doorway and totally eavesdrops. This is possibly the best thing that has ever happened to him.