The drones got right to work bringing the contents of the storage locker to the Fusion Reactor's loading chute. Interestingly, they all appeared to be pressurized gas mixes in a pure carbon matrix container. That must mean that it was a CNO cycle reaction, just like the ones that he had been using for the Dyson Sphere.
This reactor was actually much more primitive, though more advanced in technology used. It was a strange thing, like they had moved backwards in development and just arbitrarily stopped using more effective power generation techniques.
It didn't make any sense. Max recalled the timeline, and this ship should have been made thousands of years after the cargo freighter that he had rebuilt. There was no reason for its power source to be like this.
It wasn't more efficient, it wasn't easier to make, it wasn't even more stable or resistant to catastrophic failure.