[Narvin ponders it for a moment. Not explosives; he has bad luck with those. (Plus, Tony's an inmate and he *probably* shouldn't encourage him to make bombs.) And to make it a fair challenge it should be something that would be familiar to a human from Tony's era. It wouldn't be sportsman-like to challenge Tony to make a stellar manipulator or psychic paper.]

All right then. Build me a particle accelerator. It doesn't have to be a large one, of course, but you may only use materials you find on the ship. No special requests from the Admiral and no bringing in materials from a port.

I'll permit you to use the lab under my supervision to carry out the project.

Do it and I might consider being impressed.