[quote=@ClocktowerEchos]
You don't need fluff, just say "I have <thing X> here because of <reason>" and it'll be fine.
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What? Bolting on the tech skeleton, without also having elaborated on its in-universe technical functioning and the vital context provided? NOT filling things with a tsunami of pure thematic technobabble? That's just plain wrong. Sacrilegious, even. The way the nonsense works is important to the pitch. 'A planet of asshole reptillians' is substantially blander than elaborating towards 'a planet of radioactive asshole symbiotic theropod reptillians with Greco-Japanese-Mesoamerican combined with Raygun Gothic aesthetic and extensively Darwinist philosophy, breechloaded gun-fired nuclear fusion gamma raygun/plasma ball launcher hybrids and a bevy of warcrime-tier aerosols & cyberdinosaurs, who decided to answer the break from the Fermi Paradox with the 'eliminate all threats' idea of prudence, failed, and were uneasily brought into the galactic community following the snafu.' If one's going to do something, it ought be done right, and sometimes that involves a fair amount of thoroughness.