Alchemist Kazyan approaches the lectern and clicks a small handheld device, bringing up a diagram of the transmutation engine's operation. It depicts an early cycle of the low-area solution, with a note explicitly pointing out that cycles are part of the engineering constraint. The alchemist points, with a narrow wooden pole, to the stock of loose air atoms prepared via duplication--placed so as to amend the ratio between air and salt. The alchemist says: "Prebuilding." The symposium erupts into arguments.