Shephard grimaces. "Tell you the truth, I wasn't there for all of it," he says. "I was there at the start, and then some sick grey fuck who talked like he was a team of weasels all dressed up like a human put me in some kinda... I don't even know what, but when I woke up next it was twenty years later and folks were only just startin' to git their shit together enough to give the invaders hell. Started comin' here a little after that, been comin' off and on ever since."

Yeah, it sounds like bullshit, he knows that, but it's the best he can manage in the way of an explanation for that dog bastard shit in the suit.