Building himself from scratch turned out to be considerably harder than the first time, and the first time had involved being born, so the bar was not low.
He started immediately after the decision was made, which was the moment he set the manual down in the hold and recognized that waiting served no purpose when he had the knowledge, the Aether, and a ship that was apparently immune to the decay of time. The technique's imprint was complete in his mind — not a set of instructions but understanding, the difference being that instructions were a path you followed and understanding was the terrain itself, and you could not get lost in terrain you had fully internalized.
The Ghost required volume.
