"We don’t know, Gar. Don’t forget, this may look like a pre-industrial society, but they come from a civilization at least as advanced as Earth in the 21st century. And we don’t know what politics are going on in the background. What if, as seems quite possible given the welded door back there, there’s an adversarial relationship between the general population and the Heaven’s River management? They might be on the lookout for strangers behaving oddly."