Ray doesn't know Rich well enough to get through to him. Which is fine, there's more than enough people here who can. Thus, instead of Nova, he turns his attention elsewhere. There's a giant flesh orb in the sky, after all, and it has a hostage.

"I'm speaking to Worldmind." Ray shouts upward, as he uses the boson gun to blast away at the base of the tentacles holding Quill down. "The real Worldmind, not the grotesque, pus-filled abomination you've been turned into."

"Look around you. Actually look. This is isn't eternal life, it's eternal suffering. It's not a solution, it's a universe-sized monkey's paw."