Unfortunately, our opinions on how things should be done don't count for much.

[Whether about the implant or, obviously, the issue they've just run into. But he also recognizes he shouldn't be stressing this poor kid out unnecessarily, so he sighs and refocuses more positively.]

But even though we can't change it, we can use what we've got, including the implant. It does have a lot of uses, like letting us communicate at a distance extremely quickly, and the network we have set up helps us coordinate and discuss things no matter where we might be physically.