That's better off than some others here. I've been told my level of technology's so far beyond what some are used to that it might as well be magic.

[Which, in itself, is notionally absurd. But to 9S, what he is and what he works with is grounded in technical reality. Magic on the other hand seems to lack any solid structure or even have uniform, logical rules.

The way Waver has described the magic he's accustomed to, there seems to be some structure to it, but what Qri has given them lacks unifying principles in his eyes]