The machine snapped its head to point at Garthar, plates flaring outwards in anger. "The Captain must have misread your training and skills. We would like to educate you on power fundamentals, as power cannot be stored in the manner you suggest without ship-size capacitor banks. To our previous knowledge, the ship is not a capacitor, and will not hold the required amount of power you are suggesting. The primary core is fine serving its intended purpose. If combat proves power draw too intense, we will begin construction on a secondary fusion core using our own fuel cells. Synthetic fuel-time will be halved, yet salvaging ships should provide additional fuel we can process. If power consumption still proves too great, we will move to further analyze core components which draw extensive power and either create protocols to mitigate consumption, or make them more efficient." The mild insult in response to Nexus' previous scathing retort went overlooked.

	It had spoken lengthily, but what Garthar was proposing was idiotic. [i]Absolutely moronic[/i]. Storing power could only be so efficient. Even with 0-Kelvin super-conductors, there was only so much power a battery could hold and how much it could release over a period of time. Even in the twentieth century this was a known fact. Power cannot be efficiently stored in that manner, it must be used on production. 
	
	"With the Captain's permission, we can provide efficiency upgrades using stabilized ion core technology. This will multiply power, yet direct hit in combat creates a one in eight possibility of complete destabilization. This means it will require monitoring by another [i]less capable[/i] Engineer." It stated, light moving to beam over Garthar. It was insinuating heavily, rightly so with that rather electrically-defunct request.