[video] Week 55, Thursday

[possessed_mage]

[Anders switches on the comm, having either figured it out or asked someone to show him how to make the moving pictures appear.]

Does anyone happen to have any samples or intact specimens of the bone creatures?   I understand Dr. Solus was making inquiries? Have you had any luck?

Comments

[damn_it_jim]

Reanimates, yes, or at least it's done it in one specific case.

[Bones is nothing if not good at hedging his observations, as a good doctor and medical scientist is prone to.]

The copies, that's the ship's doing, and if you want some existential discomfort I swear that's worse than transporters for it.

[possessed_mage]

"The ship copies us when we die? Really? That's....extraordinarily creepy. I'll try not to die then. What about these transporters?

[damn_it_jim]

I don't know if the ones on Salvation work the same as the ones on my ship, but Federation transporter technology dematerializes your entire body, stores a pattern of it, and then rematerializes it some place else. Sure, it lets you travel long distances and skip the middle step of actually covering that ground. Or space. But nobody's been able to really answer to my satisfaction whether or not the original you dies in the process.

It's all philosophy until you're standing on the platform yourself, you know. I'll use the system if I have to, but the possibilities are a good way to keep yourself awake in the middle of the night.

[possessed_mage]

That's.....really? You're not joking with me are you? I'm not sure if I'm horrified or really interested. That would have made escaping from the Circle a whole lot easier.

Think I can take one of these transport things back with me if we get home?

[damn_it_jim]

Only if you find a way to bring a few centuries of scientific understanding and engineering design with you. Transporter technology's all tied up in the Prime Directive, and I'm fairly sure your civilization has a way to go before it catches up.

[Certainly Anders' initial fashion sense suggests as much. Or possibly he's just a crazy bird-hobo by their standards too. Bones snorts.]

If only Bones knew! Crazy bird-hobo indeed!

[possessed_mage]

You can't just let all that slip and hand me one? Do they come pocket sized?

[damn_it_jim]

[Bones snorts at that, amused even if he's unyielding.]

Only if you have pockets the size of a house. I think it's up to you and your winning personality... or you could just not go home again.

[possessed_mage]

Hey, me and my winning personality have gotten ourselves out of a ton of trouble. I'm charming remember?

But not going home, that has a certain appeal. There are no templars here. But, the mage underground needs me.