SCMR Chpt 52

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==Chapter 52 - Self Configuring Modular Robot==
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"I don't want to work on...
...that, Yvonne." Elizabeth said it firmly, "You know and I know we don't have enough information to fix me. We MIGHT have, if the Cappies agree to their gene-scientists helping the project, enough that my brothers kids won't be born with the defect. I have a better idea."
"Uh-huh, no. Arthur warned me about you tryin'a distract me from this." Yvonne wasn't having any of it, as she checked the restraints on Elizabeth Ngo before bringing the suite of instruments Dr. Castle had ordered over.
"Hear me out...what if we could terraform a planet-and make it stick? even one that doesn't have an atmosphere, never mind a magnetic field."
"Life won't survive that for long." Yvonne dismissed.
"I don't mean with life as much as a synthetic, artificial sort of life. Self-replicating oxygen generators who crack dust, solar powered?"
"What, kind of a 'photosynthesis machine'?" Yvonne asked.
"Yeah." Liz said, "Mechanical plants for places where plants can't grow. Microscopic soil-generators, nitrogen fixing drones..."
"Tell me about it after the Doc finishes." Yvonne told her, "I promise I'll listen then, okay?"
"I need your help designing the ecology. I've got a project in the works back home..."
"Holy shit, you started it?" Yvonne stopped, "You started it, didn't you?"
"Right now it's just making building materials and components for another project, but yeah...interested??"
"We are definitely talking after the procedures today, and you're going to tell the whole group about your side-project!" Yvonne scolded, "You always run off on your own thing and it screws up."
"That was one time!"
"Once is enough, we all need to know what you've been up to now."
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