The lack of recovered data on controllable nuclear fusion meant humanity had to figure it out entirely on their own. It was a reality Jason found deeply regrettable.
Naturally, some scientists pinned their hopes on the small metal sphere Jason had retrieved from the alien core. Its exact nature remained a mystery, and efforts to decrypt it had so far been completely unsuccessful.
The cryptographers aboard the Noah were like 19th-century craftsmen staring at a modern solid-state harddrive, feeling utterly lost. They lacked the foundational theories, didn't know the hardware model, and had zero technical parameters to work with. They could only grope in the dark.
However, Jason wasn't worried about their energy grid in the short term. Based on their current consumption of 20 to 30 megawatts, the Noah's uranium-235 reserves were enough to last two hundred years. Furthermore, the recent discovery of several small Martian uranium deposits would only bolster those reserves.
