Mograe looks offended at that name-butchery, but Ven just rolls with it.

"Wow, really?" That's an entirely foreign concept to him -- he knows what machines are, of course, he's used some basic ones before in everyday life, but all the same he's not the most tech-savvy individual out there. Plus the thought of their being substituted for war is pretty cool, peacekeeper that he is. "So do you build them? Or control them? What are they like?"

One question at a time, Ven.