"Huh," Max said, considering. "That's a really interesting set of divergences. It sounds like you guys even had a couple advantages over us in some ways. As for fission batteries, that's incredible. Fission is still kind of a big deal back home for me, and we've had a lot of trouble with it."

She took a sip of coffe and nodded her head. "Yeah, you're definitely going to have problems integrating the two types of systems, I imagine. But I bet it could be done, with the right equipment and the right brains." She grinned, excited. "Do you have any design specifications for hardware from your home? I'd like to take a look at it, see what matches up with what I know and what doesn't."