It's a stable power source for portable devices. The applications are nearly limitless.

[He gestures emphatically at the gloves, to indicate that the reason they aren't working is because the stones have been removed--but he thinks she already knows that.]

But the Council doesn't care about air scrubbers or water purification systems. So...tools for miners and artisans. To start.

[It feels stupid now that he says it out loud. None of it matters, because they couldn't even get any of it past Heimerdinger, to say nothing of the full Council. Viktor seems to realize how hollow this this sounds, and drops his gaze back to the gauntlets, picking a shard of metal out of the gash and setting it aside.]

Please, just. Tell me what he did.