>> When she picked the Cipher Zero up from Salusian military surplus,
>> Rei got an excellent deal.
>
>I'm just going to take the story behind that as a given. We're all
>genre savvy enough to put together the "did something much appreciated
>by the Crown" sort of thing.

Alternately, there is the Young Ones explanation.

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