Fourteenth Discovery

[saikyocivrobo]

We teleported. I didn't even know such technology is possible.

I'm pretty sure I'm the same person as before - and I hope I'm not mistaken. Depending on how teleportation works, it might have some nasty side effects. And I'm not talking about failed teleportation where your DNA gets fused with a fly or anything like that.

Comments

[chozo_girl]

A good outlook. Many dismiss what they cannot understand or what their paradigms say is not logical as magic.

[Given how many times people have marveled at her "magic suit", she knows what she's talking about...]

[saikyocivrobo]

It's foolish to dismiss something you witnessed with your own eyes. You should try to understand it instead.

[chozo_girl]

[Nod.

Then Samus thinks for a bit, as if thinking how to put whatever she's going to say next. Not very used to discussing things, after all. When she speaks, she does so somewhat absently]

A person is decomposed into energy. They no longer would have sensory organs to perceive, nor a brain to process them. Nothing physical but little remains of disgregated mass in a self-contained plasma state, powered by the energy that was their own body.

Yet, they can still perceive and think.

What would you understand from that?

Do you think they are the same person after being recomposed?

[saikyocivrobo]

Hmm... If they can still perceive and think in that energy state, then yes. But that's a big if.

[chozo_girl]

Not so big.

[saikyocivrobo]

So it's something you've experienced. Most likely first-hand.

[chozo_girl]

Every time I use my suit's morphball, yes.

[saikyocivrobo]

Morph what now?

[chozo_girl]

My suit can dematerialize me and compress itself into a ball, roughly 30 cm across.

It is useful.

1/2

[saikyocivrobo]

2/2

[saikyocivrobo]

Could you show me?

1/2

[chozo_girl]

I suppose.

[A flash, and-]

2/2

[chozo_girl]

[-suited Samus is standing there, in all her one-woman-armaggeddon glory. But she simply bends and...

...well. She really does turn into a ball. A very small ball for such a big woman, in fact. And there is obviously a field of energy shining inside]

[saikyocivrobo]

Hey, it's true. Can you hear me?

[Werter pokes the ball. At the same time, Prometheus peeks from behind a corner curiously.]

[chozo_girl]

[The ball unfolds into the suit again]

Yes, I can hear you. I do not have any way of answering while in that form, however.

[saikyocivrobo]

Can you do anything else in it? Or does it just sit on the ground? That wouldn't be too useful...

[chozo_girl]

It was designed to be a mobility form. Lets me get through small spaces.

[saikyocivrobo]

Hmm... I must say, I didn't expect someone with such serious disposition to turn into a small ball and roll around.

[chozo_girl]

[The suit dissappears with a flash. Samus is looking as stoic as ever, but there seems to be a certain air of amusement]

Why?

[saikyocivrobo]

Well, it's not exactly the most dignified way to travel.

[chozo_girl]

Dignity is quite a relative term.

Utility, however, isn't.

[Yeah, Samus seems amused by the conversation]

[saikyocivrobo]

In that case, could you show me how you roll around in that ball form? For science.

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[chozo_girl]

For science, of course. [Samus has the slightest smirk on her face]

[Then she just shrugs. If he wants to find her funny, he's free to. She certainly finds a large percentage of the people in this ship to be somewhat amusing herself, with their weird ideas]

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[chozo_girl]

[And so, a couple seconds later, there's a ball on the ground again. And it rolls away into the corridor, almost at the end already - damn, that's a fast ball]

[saikyocivrobo]

[Prometheus jumps from his hideout and starts to chase the ball! He's a bit slower, but tenacious.]