Jamie had folded his arms against his chest when the hologram had appears, looking at it as if he didn't quite believe what she was saying at first. But as Stacy continued to speak, he slowly started to reverse the gesture until his arms were at his sides.

"So if ye could be fixed somehow, maybe then the Punishments could be stopped? There's a lot of clever people here, and I bet they could come up with something..."

He stroked his chin thoughtfully for a moment. "What were ye before, when ye were first made? You're an ark now, and a prison ship before that. But your original purpose? What was that?"

Maybe if they knew what she was meant to be it would help the others figure out some way of working around the damage. It was worth a try, anyway.