"Yes. It's a transportation device that allows for almost instant travel between planets. It's how I'm used to traveling between worlds."

He pauses for a moment, then gives a wry smile, noting the look on Peter's face at the mention of the word 'Stargate'.

"I say 'used to', but I haven't been doing it very long. On my planet, we didn't even know what the Stargate was for until some explorers arrived through it."

And in Kelowna, there's no such thing as a spaceship in anything but the distant theories of scientists.