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Andy went back to his reading... He had much to learn. After an hour or so he went to his bag and started to tinker around with the things he had brought, struggling to remember the little details from engineering school. He had scribbled out several formulae and equations and there were things circled or crossed out all over the piece of paper he was writing on. He built his prototype which took several more hours, and began to inspect it for errors after gingerly giving it power. From what little he could observe without the artifact in use, it appeared to be working... The next step was to try it out...