Grey spent the next several hours doing little more than cycling materials through the five chain designs, discarding combinations almost as quickly as he found them.
Anything used for the four rigid chains had to maintain microscopic Curved Faces under absurd amounts of energy while insulating inactive pathways cleanly, while Prometheus' chain needed an entirely different balance built around the living sap he had settled on.
By the time Grey finally stopped, hundreds of materials had been reduced to a short list that worked together without forcing him to compromise the original idea.
That was when the easier part began.
Grey opened the inventories available to Melix first, then expanded the search to the vaults and stores the former Empires had brought with them after their consolidation.
