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Not sure if you're planning on going any more in-depth with building bodies for the cores and whatever else but if you are;
Consider having Elizabeth requisition a 3D polymer printer, a DMLS machine and a tech or 3 to design parts and rapid-prototype them for the psionic division's needs.
A colony ship in the future would have entire workshops with this equipment in order to be self-sustainable, so getting one in for a team doing this kind of cutting-edge work would be both no problem and common sense to bring down the time between having an idea and being able to try it out.
I've been at the forefront of rapid prototyping for over 20 years and these machines have revolutionized the "idea to working prototype to design iteration to finished product pipeline".
Design iterations can now be trialed and evaluated in hours and days instead of weeks and months.
For anyone wondering DMLS = direct metal laser sintering.
Look it up if you want detailed explanations.
I only mention this because TRS is one of my favorite stories on here and constantly having to fill in forms to get a new thing to try a new idea would be extremely cumbersome.
But if the story intends to not delve any deeper into this aspect, then it's all good.