"I know what it does," he tells her, peevishly, "I didn't say I knew how it worked. If I did, I'd obviously be trying to work around it. The Null are more technologically advanced than us by far and they have abilities with their machines that we cannot hope to match, much less combat. Now..."

He rubs at his chin thoughtfully, paging down on the network again.

"If one of you could obtain one of the weapons- one of you I could trust- then perhaps we could work on figuring it out."