All of it was thoroughly beyond her ken, but she watched with interest anyway, glad that someone had the sort of scientific knowledge required for unknown territory like what lay beyond the ruins of Temba. She had to admit that some of the things he'd asked for a demonstration on were impressive.

"Well done," she said as they made arrangements to have it delivered to the hangars where their fleet had been parked. "I have a feeling the others are gonna be pretty impressed with this, Dr. Riley. ... It's all pretty over my head, but ... you could use this to find ground water and ore, things under the surface, yeah?"