12-21-2022, 03:31 PM
I took David's "I used protomatter," rather than "We used protomatter" literally. But since we never hear from Carol again after STII, we don't know. We have no idea how they worked with each other, whether they did everything together, if each handled part of the development, etc. The cave didn't show any sign of things falling apart, so maybe the matrix worked fine without protomatter in a small space and the "certain problems" David used protomatter for cropped up when he tried to scale his mother's work up. The planet-sized torpedo may have been the only Genesis to use protomatter, and its first test was what Reliant was supposed to be finding a lifeless world to conduct it on.