My wife always gets down on me when I do too much exposition. There's a whole deleted scene where I explain the tri-drive nature of the Truveador engines and how they are something on an anomaly in the contemporary space engine scene. This is what attracted “Doc” to the ship initially. As she explained in the deleted scene, her PhD research showed how energy efficiency could be achieved in a hybrid drive system and she wanted to test her theories in a real-world environment.
