Will do - we're about ninety percent done by now, I think. Field tests ought to be running soon.

[And he nods.]

Forerunner technology, we call it - we've only managed to reverse engineer a tiny bit of it, but it's amazing what you can find in an infinite library like here in Paradisa. I only have the knife - Tucker had a whole sword, but he hasn't been around for ages.

[And he grabs it much as one would grab a dirk - they were originally for assassinations, after all.] Mind if I?