The hard light tech, right? Can't imagine that the resources for that are common in your world, let alone somewhere else entirely.

[ Just an assumption. Hard light tech existed where Wash was from, but in a way that they still didn't entirely understand, let alone know how to manipulate, and it'd sounded like it was a specialty of Vishkar's in some way. A pause there, and a quiet nod, his expression grave. ]

I wouldn't trust them with it, either. [ But that's a far cry from where she used to be. Looking up at her again, meeting her eye. ] What has you doubting them, now?

[ Of course, she's always had some doubt. But she seems even more uncertain, now. ]