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[oddbod]

I have a question about nanites.

[Said casually, but with a certain amount of self-importance. Clara Oswald opens conversations as though they were great doors to be flung.]

They're what bring us back when we die, yeah? They repair what's malfunctioned, like... like a pit team. [She thinks that's what they're called, at least.] But what if nothing's there to fix? That's what I want to know. If there's no body left, there are no nanites left, so the Porter just... rematerializes you? Plops down a backup file? If there's too much damage to fix, what exactly happens?

[It's all asked in a very matter-of-fact, academic tone. Clara could maybe use a lecture on morbidity from her past self.]

Comments

[oddbod]

I'm a space traveler. The number of planets with vaporizing weapons is astronomical - pun unintended.

[rathercommon]

There are other types of weapons too, though, aren't there? I mean, I'd assume.

[oddbod]

Oh, yeah. Anything you can imagine. There's one on the planet Shantella Prime that turns its victims into marmalade.

[rathercommon]

Marmelade?

[oddbod]

Yep. Orange.

[rathercommon]

How does that work? I mean - like - molecularly?

[oddbod]

Not quite a question I bothered to ask while they were holding it to my head.