Bruce glanced up, and took in her hesitant style, and gave her an unsure smile. "Yes, miss?" He smiled more confidently when she stated her name and asked her question.

"At the moment, I'm working on a self-inducing schism cell, to create a partial subspace field around the scanner I'm going to put it in, so as to allow faster-than-warp communication with modern databases." He smiled at her.