Sailas Montgomery stood with his arms behind his back looking at a screen in their conference room which displayed the EV-Starlight moored to the station. At the moment, they were only in the theorem stage of research...thinking up ways to bend reality to their control. He reached for a mug with his coffee. He took a sip as he continued staring at the screen, as if willing his hypothetical hypothesizes to take form in reality.
"If only..." he said more to himself than anyone else. The Conference was the perfect test bed for this type of technology...even though he knew if they were successful they could never let it out on the open market. He'd witnessed too many breakthroughs be used by parties who wanted to bend it to their will in killing one another.
He went to take another sip of his coffee and spoke into the mug before doing so. "The IRG Cores will unlock this mystery for us...I just know it."
He took his sip and sat the mug back on the counter, waiting for his compatriots as well as putting all his focus into the screen, willing his thoughts into reality.