Ray comes from a planet that worships machines, and the raccoon-AI gained sentience and has essentially enslaved Ray's race, by making them believe he is this machine god. Ray believes that Tic is the beginning of this rapture-esque event called the Convergence, where the machine god (the raccoon AI) had taken a physical form. Ray is in some dumbfounded haze, but once he comes to, he will follow Tic's every word, and even protect her with his own life.