"Sourcing would be useful," he said, putting down his coffee cup. "My ship is pre-War, so in order to modify her in any way, one has to have at least a passing familiarity with ancient ships. It makes sourcing somewhat difficult."

It sounded good, but it wasn't like he had an encyclopedia knowledge of it himself. He wasn't a mechanic, primarily. Back in his own world, he had a Mechanic work on Silence, only doing it himself if it was inconvenient to involve the expertise of a third party. Here, he'd had to learn it all from the ground up, but knowing the language helped. Having a mysterious engine with an apparently inexhaustible energy source helped more.

Jylland was never involved in the War of the Magi. Their technology was rather different. In order to repair a Pre-War ship, the parts had to be salvaged, or made to order, or the systems had to be altered to fit new parts. It hadn't been easy, but with the help of Refia and Yylfordt, she was almost perfect.