Alexa took a look at the numbers, choosing to focus on them rather than the parasitical infection comment. When they got out of here--and got to this guy--she'd show him a parasitical infection alright...
"That's...base five. The recycling of the air and particle waves is resulting in everything being decreased by halves. It's operating on base ten, but the circulation process is causing it to drop to five, which also lets him piggyback."
Alexa sketched out some quick calculations on the floor next to her mockup of the console.
"Anything we do will be cycled down by half and since we're operating at five right now, at least on this side of things, our inputs will go in at 2.5. That won't be enough to do anything more than turn us into a stain of amino acids and organics on the floor. That's what he's counting on and I'm willing to bet that's what happened to the other guys. They came in, pressed a few buttons and became splatsauce. Anyone got a paperclip?"
Alexa walked over to Mary, tapping the glass back case of her cell phone against Mary's armored plating to create a crack large enough that Alexa could pull the device apart.
"We're building a signal amplifier. Everything is being decreased by halves. We need to power at baseline for two consoles in a second room. We gotta boost system to base forty for our inputs."
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"That's...base five. The recycling of the air and particle waves is resulting in everything being decreased by halves. It's operating on base ten, but the circulation process is causing it to drop to five, which also lets him piggyback."
Alexa sketched out some quick calculations on the floor next to her mockup of the console.
"Anything we do will be cycled down by half and since we're operating at five right now, at least on this side of things, our inputs will go in at 2.5. That won't be enough to do anything more than turn us into a stain of amino acids and organics on the floor. That's what he's counting on and I'm willing to bet that's what happened to the other guys. They came in, pressed a few buttons and became splatsauce. Anyone got a paperclip?"
Alexa walked over to Mary, tapping the glass back case of her cell phone against Mary's armored plating to create a crack large enough that Alexa could pull the device apart.
"We're building a signal amplifier. Everything is being decreased by halves. We need to power at baseline for two consoles in a second room. We gotta boost system to base forty for our inputs."