When two humans land on a planet with their shell-person companion at the helm, they think they are prepared for anything. Ponies was not among their definition of "anything," however.
She resides within a titanium shell, yes. Shells have a limited degree of self sufficiency:They are designed to have a minimum amount of nutrients and whatever other life support systems shell people need, in case of catastrophic ship/station failure. These systems also are fed from whatever space station or ship they are connected to. I believe there was also a distress beacon hard wired in the shell.
THEN there is whatever got Kiera interred as shell person in the first place. The process is ridiculously expensive and NOT done on a whim. THEN you go back to whatever and however life support systems are connected to Kiera, and if they removed or just bypass her organs, and by this point you are basically asking to teleport a turtle out of its shell, and hoping it survives.
On the one hand, you want to get her out of her shell before she transforms and gets squished to death, on the other you don't want to risk it until you know she's likely to survive...
8869352 Good points. Also there is the problem that magic barely works within the ship for alicorns, and not at all for regular unicorns. They might still struggle to teleport her outside of the ship's shielding.
An ultra crash course? Hope he's not going to try doing it solo. It sounds like not, but not very clearly. It feels like the operation is going to be like transforming a sedan into a nuclear powered biplane while driving down switchback mountainous highway on a near empty gas tank, but without all the supporting equipment needed to make a wing, despite the engine already preparing to melt-down from the radiation material growing in the cylinders... That metaphor really ran away, didn't it? Keep going! ;)
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That seems AWFULLY risky.
She resides within a titanium shell, yes. Shells have a limited degree of self sufficiency:They are designed to have a minimum amount of nutrients and whatever other life support systems shell people need, in case of catastrophic ship/station failure. These systems also are fed from whatever space station or ship they are connected to. I believe there was also a distress beacon hard wired in the shell.
THEN there is whatever got Kiera interred as shell person in the first place. The process is ridiculously expensive and NOT done on a whim. THEN you go back to whatever and however life support systems are connected to Kiera, and if they removed or just bypass her organs, and by this point you are basically asking to teleport a turtle out of its shell, and hoping it survives.
On the one hand, you want to get her out of her shell before she transforms and gets squished to death, on the other you don't want to risk it until you know she's likely to survive...
8869352 Good points. Also there is the problem that magic barely works within the ship for alicorns, and not at all for regular unicorns. They might still struggle to teleport her outside of the ship's shielding.
An ultra crash course? Hope he's not going to try doing it solo. It sounds like not, but not very clearly. It feels like the operation is going to be like transforming a sedan into a nuclear powered biplane while driving down switchback mountainous highway on a near empty gas tank, but without all the supporting equipment needed to make a wing, despite the engine already preparing to melt-down from the radiation material growing in the cylinders...
That metaphor really ran away, didn't it?
Keep going! ;)
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