Across the room, Olivia could hear fluid running through buried machinery. She did not need to understand the mechanism of the probe to know it would obey her orders, so long as it could. The Forerunner had placed her in charge of this mission. That meant she could pursue it her way. "Now, what I said before. I want to see how every previous encounter with... if there's a translator, that means there are people living on this planet? They look like me then, right?"