The Melancholy of Mackie-Chan

[Dartz]

There is a surprising amount of this ---- although most of it's dialogue shrapnel. Including what Jet actually did to 'fix' Mackie

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“Your sister delidded your main core chip and welded cables for a power supply direct to the traces to maintain your core system memory while she cut it out. She took a daughterboard from the unawakened core of the Knightwing which she thought would be a complete tabula rasa and removed one of the four chiplets. She replaced it with yours, because they’re pin compatible.”

“Then she cut the databus to the absolute minimum needed to link with the Knightwing’s original Avatar interface, paired that with the puppet, and remounted the entire assembly inside her puppet body.”

“What your sister did was - it wasn’t the equivalent of just swapping you into a new body - it was like she salvaged what she could of a damaged brain, combined it with the healthy parts of a new, healthy brain, and then refitted the entire assembly into another body.”

“It’s uncomfortably close to an old Boskone technique for subverting an innocent Mind. It’s not something I would’ve thought of doing. And it's not something I can undo - that's working beyond the ghost line. Those chiplets are a part of your mind - disconnecting them would be no different from performing a lobotomy, with the same unpredictable results."

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