Hmm! [She has to think on that. She herself never tried making ice cream but maybe if she had a book or something she could give it an attempt... Ah, but then there would be the trouble of having people come and bother her. And hiding something like that would be really hard on a train like this.]

[That second question though... how much would she be comfortable revealing...?] Octarians... live in large domes, deep underground. We have large screens that show the sky, and we use electricity to power devices like the ones on the walls but it would project outward and present its display from the screen. Our engineers also mastered anti-gravity technology and... [gigantic bioweapons] ...other such things.

In Octarian society, we greatly value engineering and technology. The parts of this train that we don't understand would make our scientists droll... [As they try to find a way to weaponize it...]