You realize the people and advancements of your time I was alive for? Most of my friends and soon myself are over a century old.
Harabero chuckled. Maltese aging was truly something... interesting. He pitied some of the more "amicable" (in his mind) sirians, who would never live even that time, even naturally.
Although, I don't find myself all there with your thoughts of... reducing the rate of Cardamine and Malta's air we require. It is a boon, is it not?
The dons brows furrowed. The Orange Blessing had contributed so much to the capability of Malta's raiders, engineering, all of it. To even desire to part from it was unthinkable.
To reduce the frequency of Cardamine inhalation and to reduce how much we need to process into our veins, would that not also reduce the combat abilities and advantages we possess over the Sirians?
It is a dangerous game to play. Although, I can't say we haven't... tampered with it a slight amount. While most of the data isn't for, ah, "open knowledge" there are archives on what seems to be particular subjects of interest on past and present projects in the databanks. Although, of course, that would be for later. Perhaps we might have you visit Petra Ferrari and the work done on Albegna sometime? If you truly do have associates which might have a particular interest in such things...