[ It's NOT MAGIC, just an absurdly streamlined workflow! And also he's using psionic-assisted input and specialized code libraries he invented himself, so to a certain extent you could say he's cheating, but it's not magic and how dare you.
Anyway. For the first half of that, Qubit's very visibly concerned - the whole emotional manipulation thing is a big yikes. He's had some experience with that sort of thing himself, and it was bad enough that he ended up pumping his brain full of nanotech to prevent it happening again. What might Peter have been forced to do against his will...?
... It's a downer question, though, so he doesn't ask it. The rest is much less of a bummer, and it piques his professional interest. ]
Intriguing...! And this city was on the larger side, I take it? Teleporting the whole area must have taken a phenomenal expenditure of energy to accomplish.
[ Man, wouldn't it be cool if you could just... teleport an entire city out of harm's way, if need be? Like, say, if someone were about to sink Singapore into the ocean? Wouldn't that be a great thing to be able to do? ]
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Anyway. For the first half of that, Qubit's very visibly concerned - the whole emotional manipulation thing is a big yikes. He's had some experience with that sort of thing himself, and it was bad enough that he ended up pumping his brain full of nanotech to prevent it happening again. What might Peter have been forced to do against his will...?
... It's a downer question, though, so he doesn't ask it. The rest is much less of a bummer, and it piques his professional interest. ]
Intriguing...! And this city was on the larger side, I take it? Teleporting the whole area must have taken a phenomenal expenditure of energy to accomplish.
[ Man, wouldn't it be cool if you could just... teleport an entire city out of harm's way, if need be? Like, say, if someone were about to sink Singapore into the ocean? Wouldn't that be a great thing to be able to do? ]