- Kulai: The message speaks of the heat seekers, the white devourers. The last survivor left this as a warning. You must get out of there immediately!
- Ricardo 'Sharkey' Alvarez: Tell me about your sister.
- Noriko 'Max' Matsuda: Well, she's three years younger than me. Smarter than me. Oh, and, and, and much prettier than me.
- Ricardo 'Sharkey' Alvarez: Yeah, right.
- Noriko 'Max' Matsuda: Well, well, she is!
- Ricardo 'Sharkey' Alvarez: No way.
- Ricardo 'Sharkey' Alvarez: Well, how did you get into the Academy? The Enclave hates the idea of contact with other beings, colonizing, everything the Academy does.
- Noriko 'Max' Matsuda: Well, I had to legally separate myself from my family. Even making calls to my sister broke the Caduceus isolation laws. And my parents, they won't talk to me at all.
- Ricardo 'Sharkey' Alvarez: At least you still have a family.
- Noriko 'Max' Matsuda: You don't?
- Noriko 'Max' Matsuda: Ace, will you please calm down?
- Russell 'Ace' Antonov: Lighten up, Max. You never get to have any fun.
- Noriko 'Max' Matsuda: Well, I'm trying to take some bio-sensor readings here. I thought I might've gotten a blip on something.
- Russell 'Ace' Antonov: On this chunk of ice? Who could be living down here?
- Noriko 'Max' Matsuda: Well, we do find living organisms in the coldest parts of Earth. We could just find something here.
- Russell 'Ace' Antonov: Oh, sure. The Abominable Snowman, maybe. "Excuse me, Mr. Sasquatch. Can we borrow a piece of your glacier"?