His pod was ejected and he landed on a planet on the fringes of Yamataian space. When he woke up he set about the task of surviving, and encountered the indigenous people. They called themselves the Sune, they had never seen anything like him before. The Sune are telepathic and this helped resolve the language barrier. While he lived with them for more than two years, he developed basic telepathy. He studied and learned their lore of using plants and other things to treat the sick and injured.