At the risk of a collective groan and people crying "
Another Morphing Cube thread?!" I was recently thinking about how the morphing cube actualy worked.
I checked most of the other threads on the cube and since most of them haven't been active since '09, I figured I'd start a new topic.
Ok, so we all know that K.A. likes to leave things up to our imagination, so I was just gonna throw my theory out there and y'all can add your 10 cents worth if you feel it's worth your while.
Basically, I've been thinking of the Escafil Device as using a form of nano-technology. The tingling that you feel when touching the box would be along the lines on nanites entering your body through skin cells and proceeding to replicate throughout the host body. At this point they sync with the host brain waves, which allows the host to send three simple commands:
Aquire,
Morph and
Demorph with an extension to the first and second command lines, being where to aquire from (
Aquire through hand) and which animal to morph. (
Morph ________)
In that sense, with the nanites being so
ridiculously small (a Helmacron would need a microscope), aquiring DNA would simply be the act of sending the
Aquire command, at which point the nanites are released through the skin and gather either genetic material or samples from the subject, storing the information and transmitting the data aquired to the other nanites within the host body.
While this his happening, the nanites also broadcast on a certain neuro-wavelength, placing the subject into a dolcile, drowsy state while the host aquires genetic information.
Once aquired, the host sends the
Morph _______ command and the innumerable nanites that are not only spread throughout the hosts bloodstream, but also the hosts skin cells, hair, organs and muscle tissue, immediately set to work reorganising the genetic structure of the commanding host, altering everything from skin pigmentation to bone structure. This whole time the nanites disable key points within the hosts nervous system, preventing them from experiencing the pain associated with altering the host at every level, right down to their genectic structure.
At this point, depending on the mass of the subject being morphed, the nanites either send or gather matter into or from Z-Space.
When morphing a larger subject, matter is gathered from Z-Space by the nanites and added to the mass of the host, whereas morphing a smaller subject requires the nanites to
send matter, as well as a certain amount of nanites, into Z-Space until the
Demorph/Return command is given, at which point the nanites within the host remotely summon the discarded nanites and matter from Z-Space, with the discarded nanites broadcasting a locator signal through Z-Space until they are called to return.
The reason behind the 2-hour morphing clock would be because, being nanites, they would have no long-term sustainable power source. While in the Escafil Device, the nanites remain in hibernation-mode until called upon, whereupon they enter a host body, using enzymes, chemicals and constantly regenerating cellular tissue within the host body in order to function, while simultaneously maintaining such a balance within the host body that they do not deprive it of chemicals/enzymes, etc.
While storing excess mass in Z-Space, the nanites are running off reserve power with nothing to fuel them and a battery life of 2 hours, after which time they lose power and are lost, hurtling through Z-Space and ending up anywhere in the universe.
When morphing a larger subject, however, the nanites, having stored the bio-data of not only the hosts form, but also the genetic data of all aquired subjects, are retaining the data of the original host form, as well as keeping Z-Space matter tethered to the host, allowing for its increased mass. Since nanite numbers cannot exceed the number of nanites that are sustainable within the original host form, the nanites are required to physically tether Z-Space matter to the host so as not to spread throughout the morphed-host body, producing more nanites to cater to the hosts now-enlarged form. During this time they cannot collect enzymes to fuel themselves and, again, switch to reserve power. After 2 hours, the nanites shut down from lack of power and the excess Z-Space matter is permanently anchored to the host in the process as a final fail-safe command to prevent the host from dying due to the sudden loss of large quantaties of matter.
This would also explain why a
nothlit cannot recieve the morphing ability from another Escafil Device, as the nanites would recognise the presence of other nanites and consider the
nothlit to already be morph-capable.
Oookaaayyy... That was a lot longer than I though it would be.
Despite what y'all may think, I haven't actually spent that much time thinking about this
I was mostly typing it as it came to me, so I'm sorry in advance if it doesn't make much sense.
What do y'all think? Sounds good? Or do y'all think I'm just talkin' crap?