"Isn't there something about doctors doing everything they can to help someone?" he said carefully.
Not really, it's the limit of their ability, the hospitals resources, and your money. Everything they can would mean actually saving a life with all technology we have and no regard for the cost which never happens for a variety of reasons one of which being that human life is only worth it's weight in the metaphysical construct of humanity that acts as motivation to do anything named "money" (interestingly Automation is antithetical to societies that require this concept which is to say all of human civilization).
f I can't understand how it works then it shouldn't be used. Not for something like this.
Good, Tinkertech isn't real technology anyway, it would fail the second you tried using it or if the Tinker doesn't touch it for a week. If it can't be Reverse Engineered then it's not technology*.
*you can Reverse Engineer a pizza so that makes it food technology, you can Reverse Engineer a tree to understand what it's made of and how it grows making it be natural technology, you can Reverse Engineer a human from the organic space suit to the organic computer making that be human technology, and you can reverse Engineer a robot making that be robotic technology. You can't Reverse Engineer Tinkertech meaning it's a super power not technology, the parts are only half there and the rest is just the power acting on the mechanisms like some idiot poking buttons till s/he gets bored and stops. Someone just decided to call it technology because no one could understand it problem is though: you can't build advanced technology without a techbase of a more primitive form (and you especially can't build a laser rifle from a microwave you found in a junkyard and have it be so advanced no one can figure out how it works despite using parts from preexisting technology!)
…How the hell are you supposed to say 'building a body for a girl that I had to save by ripping her brain and spine out'
Start by not saying spine? It's the spinal cord which is just an extension of the brainstem and the part that controls motor functions, the spine is everything including the bone. Some animals can survive beheading as long as they have their spinal cord (example: chickens).
Also phantom limb sensation was supposed to be a bitch, and keepin
She's going to have phantom body no matter what you do.
"Nanomaterial," I corrected. "And… yeah. Kinda. I don't really have much here right now, and I don't think I'd be able to do it with what I do have, so…"
[Joke] The Nanomaterial is useless against WOOD![Joke]
I picked up the model of the Taylor, and it was like something that had been fuzzy before was now in perfect clarity. The technology I had and could construct was so much more.
And this ship
Is she going to be
Fletcher now?
"I can build this. A Fletcher-class destroyer, but upgraded to the highest level of Tinker-tech you can imagine. I-I don't know how."
And this felt right. Something in me longed for me to do it right now, to use a portion of the nanomaterial I had in the bay to form this three-thousand ton warship.
Because this was what I was meant for
Weirdly, Fog have the technology for intergalactic war but for some reason are doing oceanic war. Spacebattleship Yamato is a
thing for the Fog.
boundary between organic and artificial neural structures would be impossible to discern
The organic half will still find some way to screw it up. The Hallmark of organic systems is the integration of the defense and repair systems and being connected to the rest of the systems which raises a question: how is she going to ensure the organic repair system works properly in regards to her brain?
Dark matter passed through the Earth much like neutrinos. There just… wasn't much of it. Our solar system was too far from the galactic center, where dark matter would be densest.
Or the galactic edge where it would also be densest... Or the edge of the solar system and maybe the edge of the gravity well around planets (really the only thing that affects dark matter is gravity and dark matter makes up ~80% of the universe). The hazards of intergalactic travel: dark matter. Just like cosmic radiation for interstellar travel or solar radioaction for interplanetary.
…I was going to need a really big fusion reactor, or some way to efficiently collect all of the energy being put out by the sun for half a second.
…
Fusion reactor it was.
Now I want her to meet Progenitor/Matriarch/Taylor from "
Steal Heart, Alloy Armor".
And that's not even getting into your heart and lungs.
It especially doesn't help that the heart is it's own close system that has a habit of spontaneously exploding (IE: Heart Aneurysm).
And then at eight thirty-two, she did.
And she went mad from the revelation and became
Mumbles.
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