[Boimler is still looking in the middle distance, mentally checked out, even as someone looms over him.]
It won't help. Some of the things in there were from a species from back home. They spread a nanite infection in organics, with uh, some pretty bad end results. There's no cure.
[He looks up, his eyes finally seeming to focus a little.]
[And up...]
[His eyebrows nearly hit his hairline. That is...a giant robotic lifeform.]
Are you...a fully synthetic lifeform?
[Possibilities started crowding his head, pushing some of the fear and nauseous anxiety aside. Human-made artificial intelligence from another dimension? Alien-creature-altered piece of technology turned sentient? Alien-made artificial lifeform? Completely independently evolving synthetic lifeform, maybe silicon-based like the Horta?]
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It won't help. Some of the things in there were from a species from back home. They spread a nanite infection in organics, with uh, some pretty bad end results. There's no cure.
[He looks up, his eyes finally seeming to focus a little.]
[And up...]
[His eyebrows nearly hit his hairline. That is...a giant robotic lifeform.]
Are you...a fully synthetic lifeform?
[Possibilities started crowding his head, pushing some of the fear and nauseous anxiety aside. Human-made artificial intelligence from another dimension? Alien-creature-altered piece of technology turned sentient? Alien-made artificial lifeform? Completely independently evolving synthetic lifeform, maybe silicon-based like the Horta?]