The Larkinson Clan's attempt to create an artificial copy of the Ixith Goliath hit a wall.
It was not for lack of trying. Ves did good work when it came to developing his sentient inorganic components.
Although there was a lot of depth in the original SOCs that Ves may have overlooked, he believed that his SICs satisfied all of the basic requirements to fulfill their intended roles.
Gloriana also made decent progress. Her work was a lot more multi-disciplinary and complicated, but she was not a timid researcher by any means.
She was accustomed to working on projects that bridged the intangible with the tangible. Her experiences with working on strange and exotic technologies also helped her accelerate her comprehension of Mentalist Crystals and its potential substitutes.
Though she could only conceive of a construct that was many times larger than an authentic Mentalist Crystal, it didn't matter so long as it could do the job.
