"Yeah, you never know, turning it on might indeed screw it up so we might have to do some maintenance immediately after the test anyway."<br/><br/>Soon enough he reached for a plug and electrically fired the machine for just a moment or two. While it sparked, the system did generate an energy field that would have made Skorn's skin curl had he not been an aquatic being, and that did suggest that it would work long enough at least to make a jump to light speed. It wasn't the most scientific test around, but it did prove that they had gotten something out of it.<br/><br/>"Knowing people like this they might very well have just needed to make a quick jump to light speed in order to avoid being traced." Predictably the lights returned from a dim state once the test was over.<br/><br/>Skorn had honestly figured or at least hoped that they had a slower-than-light engine perhaps fired by a ramjet or some other type of regular rocket system to get them out of whatever hole they might find themselves in.<br/><br/>Nevertheless, the test went far better than he could have previously imagined. Then again, he imagined that it was going to spark a fire, so his expectations weren't exactly very high.