>>>Seems like (Corwin)'s now
>>>got a submarine, though. Some guys got it.
>>>
>>
>>Well, that leads to the question of whether the submarine is a locked
>>form, or if it can be rebuilt. Corwin wouldn't be in desperate need
>>of a submarine, as far as I can imagine. If the nanotechnology or
>>whatever that formed the submarine could be reformatted - say, into a
>>starship...
>
>Fog ships basically are starships; it's just that they can also
>swim.
>

Considering that a notable percentage of the known starships are also capable of water landings, I suppose this shouldn't surprise me.

>
>That said, their ship configurations can be altered, and
>internal mechanisms reconfigured. I-400-class Fog submarines
>were not normally equipped with supergraviton cannons, for instance;
>Iona cannibalized hers from the wreck of Hyūga.
>
>Also, and on a point of order, at the moment he has a girl and seven
>kilotons of metallic dust (and the latter is at the bottom of an
>antarctic fjord, to boot), not a submarine. :)
>

True. I just wasn't sure whether the metallic dust would only re-form into a submarine or not.

Peter Eng
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