1 Iki Piki: Wait wait wait... If we spent 2.3 quadrillion years in cyberspace where our own subjective time was slowed down...
2 Iki Piki: How come our ship is still here? How come our physical bodies are still here?
3 Spanners: Our bodies and ship were digitised and experienced the same subjective time as us. It was in the latest patch.
4 Spanners: After some people reappeared in their own rotting corpses.
4 Serron: I’m surprised a software company fixed that.

Several people asked this question after the last couple of strips.

Honestly, the question hadn't even occurred to me, but I'm glad readers asked because it made me come up with a funny reason.