Tough luck on those space travellers, who will now have to go the long way round.
They may also one day be a hazard that space travellers will need to overcome.
"Maybe they think every space traveller is sick or something?"
Maybe they've got a special department here for sick space travellers.
It's very easy to believe that everyone you meet there is also a space traveller.
Though this space traveller was man-made, it had nothing to do with us.
Otherwise he might blow his cover story of being an experienced space traveller.
There are many space travellers who build their ships like that.
"Being a space traveller means always having to say goodbye," he thought.
They may well be just the livestock that the real space travellers took along for food.