[ Turing listened like a dutiful student during the entire lecture. So this core more or less functioned like a CPU and a power source rolled into one, or something like that, and multiple lower quality crystals connected in a network wasn't equivalent to a single high quality crystal. If nothing else, that put the problem into perspective, but a few things about that still bothered them. The first one being: ]

Are you sure all of those requirements still apply in this place? [ A question mark blinked on their face before returning to normal. ] My batteries would normally have needed charging several times over by now, but they haven't been depleted at all. This place does strange things even to technology...

[ They still weren't really sure how to feel about the void having this much disrespect for the laws of thermodynamics, not to mention the laws of physics in general. On the other hand, if that quirk could work out in their favour, then it could be helpful not only for Add, but for everyone. It was worth a try!

...They were also aware revealing that knowledge about their batteries might not work out so well for them. It was a big gamble--a bigger one that they were used to taking, but it was one that they were taking for a reason. Taking this path was more than a little underhanded and not at all suitable as direct and honest communication, but this was also an immediate way of confirming something. ]

Due to that, an alternate method or substitution might be possible now, even though it wasn't before!