Ohhh ahhhh.


So Cognition Engines would require a psychic brain that's hijacked as a sort of antenna to see into the void?  Maybe the reason they are expensive is that they require a mature brain and the cloning process doesn't always reproduce a Vacare's psychic potential?  We could say accelerating the growth of a clone would exponentially increase the chance the clone lacks psychic potential.  So any number of the brains, probably a majority, would be useless.  You'd first have to make the Cognition Engine, then wait for a cloned brain to reach natural maturity in a minimum of eighteen years.  You could have hundreds of clones going at any time but even then only some of the brains would be useful and if you try to speed the process up none of them are.

I like it.  Clever [@Flagg].


EDIT:  Also totally possible.  We're basically just discussing the fluff at the moment anyway, we have the FTL system more or less down if [@Polybius] agrees.