Ultimately, material suited for a conduit for the excess discrepancy in energy-- but for now... information about it. [ Through the audio feed, her tone seems to adopt a lower, professional tone. It sounds as if she's been thinking about this for a while. ] "Keeping the balance" is good to tell us, but impractical when we want to encourage people to engage in touch, not to caution those already doing so from continuing. A conduit to house excess energy could help all. [ Could. She'd still be collaborating with the locals before doing anything too dangerous. Hopefully, anyway. Even if she could just make a diagram and present it, it would help. ]

I've proposed this idea to the locals at the Research Center, and they seemed open to the idea. [ Thus, she and those working on this project must prove that they are trustworthy and capable over time-- or so she believes. ] The priests are not forthcoming with information of what might be suitable to share with us, but there seem to be a number of locals who are more open.

[ She continues after drawing a breath, ] Here is what we know: there are no mines in this city. Many of the scraps and specialty metals found within the repair shops are repurposed from expired locals. Trade of the more precious ones are highly regulated, and we do not know exactly which ores, and in what amount, are used to house their chassis units.

If you could develop rapport by beginning to assist at one of the local repair shops...you might obtain that information for yourself. It would bring us one step closer to our goal.