[He gives a brief chuckle back, far from surprised at Braig's own surprise. After all that time? News like that?

And now he settles halfway into rambling on mode, back into the technical talk that comes naturally - and takes him away from the harder to deal with details.]

His influence is a large part of it, I'll admit. It's provided quite a big boost to everything else; [showing off diagrams] that's his, here and here, but you can see that it's also affected here and here, giving a general increase in strength, especially in the darker sectors as you might expect. Which is a lot of them to say the least.