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>Ok, good news bad news good news time.
>The first good news is, yes you do get better armor, and (sort of) a special gun maybe, that's still in development, but you'll definitely have very good weapons of some sort!
: "I am sort of glad to hear that."
>Also, you strike me as a female who prefers being alive!
: "Very perceptive, sir!"
>Well lucky you, then, because after this procedure your body will be capable of surviving extreme environments that any unprotected space pirate would find very briefly agonizing before being reduced to a lump of blackened carbon. They'll even be comfortable! Have you ever imagined taking a bath in some molten metals? As a bonus, you will also become capable of travelling through federation space without automatically attracting violent attention!
: "Afraid I don't have Science Team's imagination."
>The bad news is, in order to achieve this, your new body will not resemble a space pirate very much. Ooooooooor at all, really. But it is theoretically possible that we would eventually be able to restore you to a space pirate body. If we have the resources. Which will mean you'll need to do your job very well.
: "I'm sure a job done well is its own reward."
>The second good news is that we're going to test the procedure on other subjects before you. That's the five-star experimental subject treatment, CH-10-255. Do you mind "Chio"?
: "Glad to hear it sir! You can call me whatever you want."
>Here, ask the computer for information on the "Ignole" species and their culture. Unit-02 could you give her information which emphasizes Ignole capability as survivors and warriors? We want them to appeal to her.
Does this biocomputer look like an entertainment unit? ... Understood, compiling information.
: "I will familiarise myself with this material, Science Team!"
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>Oh entities misidentified as divine by superstitious primitives! It's Project Metroid Hands again!! Flashbacks!!
>No, no, keep it together. Cooling! We have hot stuff here! We must have a cooling system in place to keep the heat our clone needs from cooking the rest of us by convection. Do we have any spare liquid nitrogen to disable metroid biology with? Only if we have any spare, our clone comes first. In fact only if we have a lot of spare, we need to save some backup. We could give them a little spray can, maybe?
Since that time it has been standard policy to install quench systems in all bio-research laboratories which are intended for Metroid experimentation.
>Chio's too important to send over there! Let someone else handle it, in case there's another explosion! That way we don't lose CH-10-255 in an explosion!
>Agreed. We should keep Chio here where it is (relatively) safe.
: "Maintaining a state of readiness."
>No, drag out the Amplification Beam prototype, the one that induces temporary reduction instead of embiggening! This should let us restrain the specimen long enough to get another tube.
This Frigate is not equipped with any surviving Amplification Beam prototypes and the energy required is not available even if it was.
>Haha, had a feeling jamming still greatly unknown metroid physiology into a project like garden team did without extra caution would result in something like this. Betting the Volviti has become gigantic, predatory, and feral and is eating all sources of electrical or "life" energy it can find. Wouldn't be surprised if the "life" energy results in anomalous effects on the volviti. I vote for maximum caution, lets assume the giant plant monster is going to wreck this facility so we should lure it into the least valuable portions first then grab and dash everything valuable we can while its busy and shove it all into some shuttles and get everything non-expendable a safe distance into space.
Evacuation of Research Frigate Cacophane is not practical under the current circumstances.
>You're just jealous she's smarter and has more initiative than your pot roast
No bickering, Science Team. You will be bugs of science or you will be bugs with ration cuts.
>I've heard how Garden was calling us inferior compared to them. So if they've got a problem, then they should be more than capable of fixing their own fuck ups!
Excellent deduction, Boiler Team. Garden Team has already resolved the incident.
>Have Chio run an obstacle course so we can see how well she preforms both before and after the transfer to the clone. If nothing else should keep her busy.
Marking obstacle course layout in empty shuttle bay. Setup will be complete shortly. Diverting test subject to shuttle bay.
>For the brain case, I would suggest that instead of making it withstand heat, we make it repel heat. Specifically, some sort of heat transfer system that funnels any heat trying to get into the brain case to the heat dispersal weapon system instead. Reuse recycle reduce.
Maintaining a stable internal environment is essential to a standard brain case. However, the Ignole's natural propensity for absorbing heat and the heat purge system to be installed mean there can be rapid temperature shifts of several hundred degrees. It is already difficult to construct a compact heat pump that can operate under such high temperatures. One that can rapidly scale its capacity to deal with such sudden changes is even more difficult and, due to the Ignole's relatively small skull, simply adding a large thermal mass to smooth out such oscillations is not an ideal solution.
Due to these reasons, the approach of transplanting the test subject's unmodified brain into an environmental support capsule may exhibit undesirable side effects in the event of rapid temperature shifts and it would be fairly obvious that the Ignole clone has extensive brain implants.
Does Boiler Team wish to propose any modifications to the test subject's physical brain, the support structure or alternative formats for imprinting brain data to better suit the Ignole body it is to be implanted into?
Secondly, are there any other features that are desired to be integrated into the brain case? The ability to connect to and coordinate with the Project Garden trooper will be one feature. An early proposal called for a small drone body, such that the brain case would be able to survive outside of its host body if required. A more extreme proposal requested the ability to eject and then attempt to hijack other bodies. However this last option is high risk and would leave no time to research any other features.
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