>>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.

At this point, it's not known. No one ever got a chance to examine how a Fog ship actually worked back during the War; as such, how their substance is configured is, so far, a complete mystery. I-401 herself may know the answer, but then again, she might not; she's a submarine, not an engineer. Either way, it's going to take some pretty significant investigating before Corwin knows how her systems work, and whether he (or she, or anyone) can make major adjustments to her vessel configuration.

That said, I kind of doubt he would make really wholesale mods, like converting her into a Corellian blockade runner or something. Submarines are cool.

Another thing that isn't known, while we're talking about them, is whether that particular metallic dust can actually be reactivated, or if it'll have to be replaced somehow. Given how difficult and hazardous turning it off was, just turning it back on with Godly Magic is probably not on.

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