The engineers followed Max down to the factory floor, where the gravity had been increased high enough to walk properly and took out their scanning tools to examine the ship on a molecular level.
Nico had verified that the devices did not record or transmit anything, so the technicians would have to verbally describe what they had seen to the other members of their teams, whose communications were monitored.
So far, none of them had broken the confidentiality rules that were in place, but they weren't going to take any chances, especially after the first team to see their work had tried to place a nanotechnology bug in the lab, which most facilities would have missed.
"Is this the same pattern of vessel as your other shuttles?" One of the technicians asked.