"...Fair enough." He holds up the power core again. "Every couple cycles they have a huge intergalactic car show. Haven't been for a couple years but the tech trickles into the market pretty quick."

He points down to some mechanisms and detailing on the casing. "See, look. The way it's built you're gonna lose efficiency, but in exchange it's basically indestructible. From the outside, anyway. That's the kind of construction you see comin' from there."