Chao was already dragging a long pile of parts she already dragged from the neglected ships Stacy found no use protecting. A few plasma coils, Various deflector shield projectors, a disassembled laser cannon, some other slabs of bulkhead she managed to wrench off of ships, none of it too substantial just yet and far from all the parts she'd needed for any project. To be truthful, learning about all the new technologies the multiverse had was limited by just how little the ship had in the way of usable components. Learning about hyper-drive and inertialess engines only made Chao even more hungry to build them herself.

Stacy however, wouldn't let the poor teenage anywhere near most of the ships sitting in the hangar bay. It was like seeing a Christmas gift under the tree but being told you couldn't ever pull the wrapping off. So, Chao had to settle with some of the more neglected ships, ones far from being all that exciting to look at.

She honestly didn't expect to find someone else delving as far back in the hangar as she was, or the schematics just lying around like that.

She stood over the plans, eyeballing the layouts with more curiosity than overdeveloped interest. she was almost completely ignorant of the people around them. If they wanted privacy, they should have cornered the area more tightly.