The starship the Naga had used to reach this planet...
Hearing the last half of Tir's muttering, Gawain immediately thought of that interstellar ship still stranded in the depths of the Endless Sea, reportedly even larger than the old Gondor imperial capital. To be fair, even though a cyberpunk-like advanced civilization such as Tarlonnd had now emerged on this planet, the Naga ship remained the most wildly out-of-place thing on it in Gawain's mind—a starship! A vessel capable of interstellar colonization!
And here he had been, thinking this was a world of swords and magic when he had first crawled out of his grave...
Gawain shook his head, casting aside those irrelevant thoughts. Then he looked curiously at the Sea Hairworm, who was lazily draped over a bench with her tail stretching several meters away. "How far along are the repairs on your ship now? I remember you mentioning not long ago that your engineers had made unprecedented progress with the power core, or some other core..."
"It's the Core Fusion Tower. The big thing that draws energy from negative-space tides to power the jump engines. Ever since we crash-landed on this planet, it's been shut down. The Deep Sea Technicians tried everything, but they couldn't reignite its primary drive furnace," Tir said, swaying her tail tip with an air of expertise. "Now that we've finally figured out what magic is, we've calculated the degree of 'deviation' the Core Fusion Tower encountered during startup."
She paused, seemingly thinking very seriously about how to explain it, before continuing. "Apparently, the Deep Sea Technicians have abandoned the plan of restoring it to its original state. This world's environment differs too much from our homeland, and the Core Fusion Tower's critical structures simply can't adapt to the new environment. So they decided to