You can call me Eilo. [It's the name he gave when he arrived. At some point, he might stop using his alias, but it was instinctive to use one when his circumstances were filled with so many unknowns. Eilo let him be someone else he needed to. In this case, an aspiring bounty hunter and hired defense. Someone neutral to the sides of the war.]

You wanted to know about the weapon? It's a planetkiller. A superweapon developed in secret. If not for the portal, I would be dead from its blast.

[It's a lot to offer all at once, but it had initially been one of two possible reasons for this difficult to explain change in scenery.

Option 1: Somehow the blast had created some form of improbable anomaly that allowed the portal to transport him to the quarantine.

Option 2: The far more likely option. He was dead, and even death wasn't willing to let him rest.]