Parmion was actually discussing with Frey ideas that Knight Frey fundamentally lacked the ability to verify.
This direction of research, how should I put it...
Inspiration is cheap, but its consumption is extremely costly. (Assuming there still exists a general equivalent called "money" in this era.)
The whole process, to put it bluntly, is at the level of scientific inspiration that combines "graphene with bird droppings and writes a thesis".