Date: Thu, 28 Aug 97 14:36:36 -0800
From: "Michael Smith"<msmith@mfi.com>
Subject: New Ultra-Tech Gadget


Perfect for the mad-scientist types out there:

The Hive Device
Copyright 1997 by Michael R. Smith

This device was found in an abandoned alien laboratory, located in a pocket 
universe just sideways from the ancient city of Teotihuacan. The device is 
about the size of your standard RoboFac, but is far more complex. At the 
center of the device is a series of powerful supercomuters and what seems 
to be a sensory deprivation tank. The construction appears to be totally 
seamless, with no obvious control surfaces. Anyone who climbs into the tank 
will immediately be placed in a form of stasis. Complex computers, 
bioscanners and neural interface technology will do a complete analysis of 
the subject. Once complete the computers activate a creation matrix that 
builds exact duplicates of the subject in the tank, identical in all 
statistics. These duplicates are not, however created out of real matter, 
but instead they are created from a complex "pseudomatter". These 
duplicates are then downloaded with a braintape of the original subject. 
All of the duplicates are telepathically linked with the original "Queen" 
subject, who can see, hear and feel through the simulacrums. Simulacrums 
behave just like their organic original, save that they disassemble into 
ram "pseudomatter" when they reach "0" Hit points. The device can create a 
number of simulacrums equal to the original subjects IQ x 2.

Comments, criticisms, thoughts?

-Mike