Saying that they were going to connect the experimental core to the beyonder core was one thing, actually setting up that connection was something else.
There were two people who weren't with them who made it possible. The experimental core's developer, who had included the connection schematic in the core's basic functions, and Rafaela's mother.
Her mother had been a scout with a truly amazing breadth of skill, even though she hadn't been a technician or a developer. She had studied the technology of her new home, and begun the process of mapping her ship's core connections long before her daughter had begun creating her own blueprint. She had hoped to recover data from it, such as recordings from her family members.
