The Doctor's Funicular Gas Separator

The Doctor’s casual handling of the refinery’s enzyme recycler—a gleaming metal apparatus bolted to the pump chamber wall—betrays an intimate familiarity with systems far beyond colonial comprehension. Its segmented, cylindrical body pulses with measured efficiency, drawing off toxic gases from Delta Magna’s refining process, but the Doctor nonchalantly critiques its primitive catalysis, hinting at plasmin solutions that render it obsolete. Thawn and Fenner watch, unsettled, as if witnessing a magic trick performed with machinery.