"...can't be replicated here easily," Tony said, after a quiet moment in which he ran through a couple of ideas, and considered where he could get more information on this. He had a certain reaction to the word can't, especially as it related to making things.

That hadn't been a bad breakdown of what that thing was, actually. Scant on the technical details, but it was just an overview, it did the job.

"No, okay, barring greater scientific documentation and quite likely additional resources, we can't make -- cosmic cube? That's the name they went with? -- we can't make one of those. In a reasonable timeframe. Alternative methodologies, then. Back in your court, Charlie."