[146] SSSSSCIENCE, Part 8976. // Voice.

[stopthat_destro]

Quick survey: What's something you've always wanted-- an enhancement to a person or animal, an object, a weapon, any kind of invention-- that doesn't yet exist in your world? Technologically-speaking, that is. Something that can be engineered into existence, not... magic.

You can respond privately.

[Private to Iago][In a ~light and casual~

Comments

Private - because she's paranoid!

[creatingalegacy]

Would a device that could eliminate inoperable tumors without incision count?

Private

[stopthat_destro]

I could have easily done that with nanomites.

Re: Private

[creatingalegacy]

Something that wouldn't allow you to manipulate the patient.

Re: Private

[stopthat_destro]

It isn't an inherent part of the package. They were originally developed to treat cancer.

Of course, the treatment is prohibitively expensive for the general population, but it exists.

[needshumility]

Question.

Are we allowed to pick something that did once exist, but now doesn't?

[stopthat_destro]

You could, but it would hardly be stimulating to brainstorm about something that's already been invented.

[needshumility]

But it might be interesting to find out what... people really missed when they were gone?

I think all the things I'd want invented are things I'd want... un-Leapbacked. So it's a difficult question to answer.

[stopthat_destro]

Perhaps, but that doesn't really fall into my field.

Still, you have me curious now. What do you miss?

Private

[inhumandog]

[Shiiiiiit...SCRAMBLE.] I mistakenly thought that I could try and fix our relationship.

It honestly had nothing to do with you, Rex. At least, that's what I attempted. Wichita was a friend once. A good one. I was simply trying to see if we could at least stand each other for a while.

I wasn't aware she was so... volatile.

Private

[stopthat_destro]

What did you say, exactly? If it's as innocent as you say, I'm sure you wouldn't mind showing me the conversation.

Private

[inhumandog]

[Sigh.] I might have gotten upset that she referenced the post that I had made and taken down.

But the conversation ended then and...nothing else came of it. I haven't sought her out and I haven't said anything else.

I just needed to know.

Private

[stopthat_destro]

And why did she do that? [REX HATES BEING THE ADULT HERE, GAWD, GUYS.]

[neuroticalson]

Jetpack.

Maybe a jetpack that drops bombs. Yeah. That'd be pretty rad.

[stopthat_destro]

That already exists in my world, unfortunately. Fairly simple to create with the proper materials.

[neuroticalson]

What? Aw shit, I'd have a field day with that.

So are you going to give us this stuff or what?

[stopthat_destro]

I've never used one, myself, but my... [STORM SHADOWWWWW] colleagues have.

[Private]
Given equipment and materials, I could. Very easily.

[Innocennnnntly.] But for now, it's just brainstorming and blueprints.

Private

[timesbureaucrat]

I used to want a timeonic fusion device. [He thinks about it, then specifies...] A *controllable* timeonic fusion device. Glower and I had a prototype and we would have been able to refine it if the project hadn't been cancelled.

Now? Just having a world would be nice, so...something that would stop the Daleks, I suppose.

...

On second thought,perhaps those two things aren't mutually exclusive.

Private

[stopthat_destro]

What a waste. What happened to the project? Is it just sitting there until somebody gives the funding and authorization to continue?

I'm not exactly familiar with Daleks, but I'm assuming conventional weaponry wasn't enough to eradicate them? Or were you simply hindered by... politics.

Private

[timesbureaucrat]

We tested the prototype, but the results were... [They accidentally aged an allied planet out of existence.]

...it was decided that the project should be abandoned and the CIA buried all evidence that the test was ever carried out. It was many centuries ago.

At first it was politics that hindered us, that and the non-intervention policy. If they'd sent a *real* operative early on, we could have erased them from the universe before they'd ever existed. [Narvin, *still* bitter that they sent the Doctor of all people to deal with the Dalek threat.]

Later, they'd grown too strong and Gallifrey too weak to hold them off.

Private

[stopthat_destro]

So nothing remains? A shame.

Do you believe the Admiral's powerful enough to have an impact on them?