Borg Dreams: Specimen: Immunology
-Explanation-
"My god..."She exclaimed. "Even your immune system seems cybernetic...We'd always assumed it would be entirely nano-robotic in design..."
"Yes," replied the borg, "we found long ago that the smallest scale production was most efficiently done by biological, rather than mechanical processes. Our circuits heal like flesh, using modified virii to bond with metals and deliver and deposit them appropriately using chemical signatures maintained on an interior wall of all insulators, so it is released whenever wires break. The virii are created by an artificial organ designed to actively replicate them as needed. The organ's function is controlled mechanically, its output calculated by nanocomputers built into our processing core. You could say we consciously decide what is needed and have this organ create it. Our white blood cells are similarly enhanced. Nanites are created with protein shells allowing them to bond to the cells. They can then control when the cell multiplies and replicate themselves to pass on to the new cell as well. They can control what and where a cell attacks, meaning even virii and bacteria which our systems could not naturally evolve to protect against can by artificial means be detected, analyzed and destroyed by these cells under the guidance of their nanitic symbiote. Antibodies can likewise be generated by calculating those that would form enabling protection against a previously unknown pathogen. Our bodies thus adapt as soon as it is known. The information is then shared to all other borg who can then synthesize their own antibodies without ever facing the infection rendering the entire population immune limited only by the speed of our communication."
"My god..."She exclaimed. "Even your immune system seems cybernetic...We'd always assumed it would be entirely nano-robotic in design..."
"Yes," replied the borg, "we found long ago that the smallest scale production was most efficiently done by biological, rather than mechanical processes. Our circuits heal like flesh, using modified virii to bond with metals and deliver and deposit them appropriately using chemical signatures maintained on an interior wall of all insulators, so it is released whenever wires break. The virii are created by an artificial organ designed to actively replicate them as needed. The organ's function is controlled mechanically, its output calculated by nanocomputers built into our processing core. You could say we consciously decide what is needed and have this organ create it. Our white blood cells are similarly enhanced. Nanites are created with protein shells allowing them to bond to the cells. They can then control when the cell multiplies and replicate themselves to pass on to the new cell as well. They can control what and where a cell attacks, meaning even virii and bacteria which our systems could not naturally evolve to protect against can by artificial means be detected, analyzed and destroyed by these cells under the guidance of their nanitic symbiote. Antibodies can likewise be generated by calculating those that would form enabling protection against a previously unknown pathogen. Our bodies thus adapt as soon as it is known. The information is then shared to all other borg who can then synthesize their own antibodies without ever facing the infection rendering the entire population immune limited only by the speed of our communication."
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