The details elude him – nuclear power is no more commonplace in Gilboa than nuclear bombs, which is why they're still fighting wars with tanks, battling from trenches and across fields of barbed wire. Molecular power is a step removed from what he's even passingly familiar with. But the details aren't what interest him anyway, so much as the passion behind them, and that is very interesting.

"And you would offer it inexpensively?" he asks with a curve of a smile, ever the skeptic, altruism having never seemed to him so plausible a motive as profit. (Admirable, yes; believable, no.)