B'omarr Monks - A few questions

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1. Can the brain of a B'omarr Monk be housed in the chassis of an HRD?

2. Can the clone vat skin of an HRD come from the organic body of the B'omarr Monk?

3. Can the chassis of an HRD also provide life support for the tissue that produces blood for the cloned vat skin that covers the HRD?

4. Does the technology exist in the SW universe for an HRD to disguise itself by changing it's subdermal facial structure, or are there nanobots that can perform "plastic surgery", add or remove melanin from skin cells, dye hair, change eye color, etc? (On a female chassis increase/decrease chest implants?

5. If Midichlorians exist in the blood of all living things can a Force user still use the Force if he becomes a B'omarr Monk?

6. Can the organic brain of a B'omarr Monk be surgically transplanted back into a cloned body of his original organic body?

7. If Midichlorians are truly microscopic life-forms in the bloodstream isn't it possible they can be cloned from O Rh D negative blood (universal donor in humans) and processed into high Midichlorian count injectable booster shots?

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You're trying to make a full body conversion cyborg, akin to Major Kusanagi?

1: Well, technically, sure, but it'll look more like Mysterio than anything else. Or perhaps Kang. Or perhaps LEXX. The fishbowl with strange liquids and stuff looks to be integral to the B'omarr conversion.

2: As far as I can tell, a HRD was covered in synthskin, which is the skin version of synthflesh. I didn't make the leap to cloned skin being used in the HRD, most likely because of the problem with blood supply.

3: Unlikely, see 2.

4: You're looking for a T-X model? I'd say it depends on the elasticity of the synthskin. It would make for some very unusual structures in the face and supporting systems, so it might lessen the HRD's ability to deceive medical scanners. Given that a Clawdite (for instance) can do this, and you can make a HRD for a Clawdite... sure.

5: Yes. One might argue that certain Force powers might be easier - and others more difficult - by the lack of the body.

6: Maybe. It might be difficult or impossible, because of the nerve damage. Nerve repair has always been slightly iffy in Star Wars - though we see that one can make an interface to cybernetic prosthetics - eyes, hands, and so on - rather than using clones as spare parts (the Emperor used clones as spare bodies rather than using them as spare parts - hinting at some fundamental problem).

7: You're trying to make Midichlorians make sense. They don't. Also, they're intelligent. So ... no.

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[Zarn]

If you suppress the midichlorians with an ysalamir, then you're basically taking away their connection to the Force - which means that the booster shot won't work anyhow.

The point I didn't say, is that the intelligence of the midichlorians (which is likely using some sort of blue-orange morality continuum) is in my opinion essentially The Living Force. If there can be said to be a plan or a will behind the Force sensitivity of some as compared to others, it is likely connected to the midichlorians. And, if they're intelligent, then I'm supposing there is a degree of free will to the midichlorians.

Which means that I think they'll just refuse to work. "This isn't how it is supposed to be", the speech bubble says (but really tiny, like in ångström-size speech bubbles). And they go on strike. And that's it. At best, nothing much happens. At worst, you'll get massive necrosis (they will themselves to die), or bacteremia (they start running amok in the blood stream), and you'll explode and die. Well, possibly not explode. But you will die, if you don't get advanced medical help (like dialysis or something).

My source for the HRD's synthskin covering was Wookieepedia. Though it was intimated that Guri was (by far) the most advanced HRD (with the possible exception of the HRD that got executed instead of her creator), which means that one of the breakthroughs might have been with blood supply for the clone skin covering.

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[Zarn]

No, no, the booster shot part is interesting - don't discard it as merely a humorous aside just yet. Though it was a digression, you're asking some possibly important questions about the nature of midichlorians here.

How about the opposite - if we accept that there's midichlorians (that explanation of the Force isn't true in my Star Wars, by the way), and the presence of advanced medical technology, then you should be able to use something dialysis-like to remove or impede a person's connection to the Force as well. Possibly permanently, if you kill their ordinary bone marrow, and transplant over some generic donor bone marrow. Or do they 'spontaneously generate'?

Also, extending that - do midichlorians carry some taint if and when a Force user falls to the Dark Side? If so, cloning Dark Side midichlorians and having a gatling dart-gun loaded with Dark Side darts would be the easiest way of forcing a Force user to turn to the Dark Side. What do the midichlorians of the Aing-Tii look like? Are they all rainbow and stuff? Is there differentiation between species on their midichlorians?

Could you get Rakata midichlorians and suddenly be able to use Infinite Empire technology? Could you remove or suppress Dark Side taint through booster shots of Light Side goodness midichlorians? "It's ok, I can telekinetically choke this guy today, I've taken my Light Side shots"?

Is there cancerous midichlorians? Can they start multiplying in a leukemia-like fashion, possibly granting tremendous powers and then killing the host? If so, is it treatable? Can you immunize against midichlorians? Is it possible to communicate with them as they're said to be 'intelligent'?

And if midichlorians facilitate a connection with the Force - what about Vongsense? What the hell did the lambent crystal do to the midichlorians?

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