43. "RE: (OOTR15) M5 Taken by Storm"
In response to message #37
>>>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 Hyƫga. > >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.