"The Calculating Pearl will change the world, that's how the mentor evaluated it, and no mechanic doubts this, including those pragmatists in the Mechanical Church."
Minkus carefully donned his mechanic protective gloves before reaching out to grasp the hovering object.
He examined it professionally, then put on his engineering goggles adjusted to a special observation frequency, lifting it under the light to inspect the internal details. But what greeted him was no longer a familiar mechanical difference machine—rather, countless points of light formed a glowing tree...
Minkus had never seen such an arrangement of Spiritual Energy Factors, but Murphy recognized it at a glance.
"This is a simulated prototype of a photon computer, as Mosna described to me. The big think tank of the Sentinel Corps has a photon computer as the coordination hub and main database for the entire corps."
Murphy explained:
