Flinching when Jace glared at him in such a way, Basil eventually said when Kaye persistently inquired, "They're not just rumors. They...they do exist. It's safe to consider them responsible for the wasteland even being remotely possible to inhabit." 
	"Kid's right," Leith said after a moment. He glanced at the taller one, who didn't look very pleased at all with these developments. Ungrateful brat. "It stands for Garden of Eden Creation Kit, Kaye. Certain Vaults were equipped with them, at least the ones that were planned on ever being opened. They're designed to purify water--large deposits of it--in order to give way into safe agriculture, clean drinking and medicinal practices, and the like. While this isn't exactly what I'd call 'Eden,' some of them did work. The Capital Wasteland is a recent example of that, if you believe the stories of what happened there a couple years ago."
	"Yes, Project Purity," Basil dropped in, pleased to have finally found someone who had a degree of knowledge on this sort of topic, "Some of the scientists there are said to have purified the Potomac River. And they did it through a G.E.C.K., so if we could find one, then...maybe we could do the same." 
	"Kid, a G.E.C.K. will likely be needed if you plan on trying to save the world or something," Leith said, "But even those scientists struggled for well over two decades to accomplish such a feat, a lot of 'em dying through the process of it. And the G.E.C.K. was just their final step to finish what they'd started, so if you don't have some theories, research, or resources of your own to begin with, then the G.E.C.K. may not be of much use to you, even if you were to find a functional one. And to be honest, you look pretty young--are you educated on this sort of thing at all? What's the likelihood of you blowing yourself up, rather than actually solving any problems?"
	Basil frowned, and was about to speak again, but Leith pushed forward, "I don't intend to squash your dreams underneath my boot. But don't go rushing into matters that you know too little about to fully understand. Science is designed specifically to kill those who try fooling with it when in that sort of mindset."