Right now the Starspanner seems to be in an information-gathering sort of mode, checking stuff out. What happens when he eventually comes to judgment?

Note that the Starspanner has the power of Mechanical Intuition, which lets him understand how to build almost anything imaginable. Under both the Basic and Advanced rules, there's a bottleneck in terms of paying for the invention, and as an alien on Earth the Starspanner doesn't have a lot of cash, but he has connections to Rich Uncle Moneybags an interstellar commercial guild, so that's something.