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Building Arms - GLaDOS's Personal Chambers - Tag CMO

Posted Oct. 1, 2020, 1:35 p.m. by Lieutenant Fey Kastil (Chief Medical Officer) (Brian Armstrong)

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Posted by Lieutenant Commander GLaDOS (Chief Science Officer) in Building Arms - GLaDOS’s Personal Chambers - Tag CMO
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“I would rather only be working on one portion at a time,” GLaDOS replied. “For one thing, I would need to double the amount of gel and containers. Regenerating the arm is more practical because if there is some kind of emergency I can cover it quickly and get to ready stations with only one arm. Not so easy with a missing leg. The arm is also easier because the systems in my artificial arm are more modular. I have to disassemble and re-assemble the arm every time I grow material, and allow for whatever growth there has been. That is more difficult to do on a load-bearing leg. Stability is more important.”

The Borg leg was, indeed, fully functional despite being dormant. It was also in much better condition than the arm, which had been messed with and altered quite heavily by the science officer. The metals were clean, and the nerve-tech interface was very complex.

GLaDOS, CSO

Doctor Feira was completely enamored with the leg, doing scans and poking at different components to see what they do if anything. She pulls a set of goggles that will allow a micro level scan so she can see how the components fit together and compliment each other.

Doctor Fey, on the other hand, was puzzling the conundrum of how to quickly move with one leg medically out of commission. “Considering how long it’s taking to regenerate the arm, are you considering not regenerating anything else due to the inconvenience it creates on your duties? Honestly, I’d hate to see you miss out on a chance to have organic limbs simply because the process takes too long. I have a few theories we can try, but it runs the same risk of causing more harm than good mostly because it’s untested and there is no way of telling how it will react here. This is fascinating, but I can’t help but feel it’s…inefficient.”

  • Doctor Fey Kastil

“This process is essentially taking an already existing process in my species’ genetic profile and activating it more … Strongly. It may not be effective for anyone but myself. But it does create perfect tissue. The tissue that I have been able to grow already has integrated effortlessly into my pre-existing flesh. I worry about my ability to do the same with internal organs, mostly because of access issues and the problems should there be a complication. It is untested technology for me, and I am using my own body as a test subject, which comes with some risks. I just don’t want to die because of one of those unforseen complications.”

GLaDOS, CSO

Doctor Feira pulled her head away from the Borg’s leg to make a comment. “We may be able to get away with reshaping the Borg components that are in the place of organic organs in order to let you regrow your natural organ while acting like a redundant. Sort of like how Klingons have redundant organs, at least until the organic ones grow in. Once they are grown in, we can actively go in to turn off and remove any unnecessary components while leaving the enhancements like the additional cerebral processors that are located on the backside of the stomach organ, the left hemisphere of the heart organ, and the bottom portion of the left lung. Because of the microbiological changes the Borg make during assimilation, there are some components that will be too harmful to remove. That doesn’t mean we can’t remove what isn’t needed though once you have the organic replacements. I’d almost say leave the organic ones out, the Borg ones are more efficient and less likely to succumb to illness or failure.”

Doctor Fey gives Doctor Feira a bit of a scowl and the Denobulan holds up defensive hands, “The choice is of course yours, I would never force my opinions or decisions upon you.” She goes back to the Borg’s leg as if she never stopped studying it to begin with. Doctor Fey shook her head lightly, “Sorry about that, some of my team get a bit overzealous with their science.”

  • Doctor Fey, though mostly Doctor Feira this time…

GLaDOS chuckled. “I know the feeling. We are of a kind, you and I. Both intimidating in our own way, but with more humanity than many might initially assume.”

She watched the bubbling gel, wondering once more how long it would take for the entire structure to be rebuilt. It was nice to have company, even Feira’s excited talk about replacing her mechanical internals with biologicals was nice.

“I’m not sure at this moment what I want to do. It was mostly a matter of getting the arm regrowth to work and pushing away thoughts of any other organs until it was done. I hate to admit it but it frightens me. The idea of having pieces inside me that have been there so long removed. The mechanical parts of me used to be something I hated because of how my shell made people recoil in fear, but I’ve become so accustomed to the way people look at me that I stopped thinking about wanting to get rid of them all. And then there are the people who don’t recoil,” she added softly, glancing over at a series of holo-photos pinned against the wall. Herself and various groups of people, some of which were familiar faces around the Levi. Her original family on the station. Her science team. Some of the senior officers from the Viking. It was nice to look back, but she always knew there was room for more photos on the wall.

GLaDOS, CSO

Doctor Fey chuckled lightly, “There is no rush to figure it out, I suspect we will be on this ship for a long time.”

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