Matt blinked. “Ice?”
Dash covered her mouth to prevent a giggle. “I didn’t expect it either.”
She started an animation on the display. Copper-colored lines formed a frame from the bow to the stern, caging the nuclear pods in a shape that looked like a traditional ship hull. “They were trying to grow a temporary hull out of ice using a copper wire frame, but the wiring was too stiff for setup and disassembly, it tended to break. We equipped the Prometheus fleet with it anyway, they had such a long way to go. It helped them tremendously, but it just wasn’t practical for widespread application.”
Now most of the copper lines were replaced by black lines that waved slightly in the current though they were anchored to the remaining copper lines. “Then I introduced Alex’s team to the fellows o
