Within a few minutes, Dr. X and Judge Fang had been conveyed aboard the 
giant vessel through a hatch set into the hull near the waterline. Judge Fang 
noted that this was not an old-fashioned steel vessel; it was made of 
nanotechnological substances, infinitely lighter and stronger. No matter 
compiler in the world was large enough to compile a ship, so the shipyards in 
Hong Kong had compiled the pieces one by one, bonded them together, and slid 
them down the ways into the sea, much as their pre–Diamond Age 
predecessors had done.