Given he's seen them in action, and gotten to get his hands on Pamdé's ('Tell your Jedi to stop foundling your jewelry' 'Ani is gifted with technology, he won't hurt it' had been uttered in their apartment on Coruscant more than once), he had a fair idea how to make a stable one. But he hadn't tried before.

"I hadn't been." Was he joking? Was he serious? Time would tell. "It isn't for me ultimately, regardless."

At least he responded well to the humor?