[ there’s no lie or over-exaggeration in it, and Sam’s never been one to conceal things, least of all when it means injury to someone else, so Shepard gets a few snapshotglimpses of the full damage the hybrid state does to an advanced cylon mind, already built with an immense kind of processing power in comparison to a human brain. ]
(This power shreds any mind connected to it. I’ll have it on for 20 seconds max, then be passed out for 10 seconds max - the last 10 I have to use to get my ass outta here.) [ the upside - sam can sift through the entire government archival database, find needed documents and transfer them in 20 seconds or less, impossible for even an phenomenally talented human code breaker to do, but he needs a backup for this reason exactly. the symbiote is the only thing that keeps sam able to come back as anything more than a vegetable from the ability, but it still takes a heavy toll, sam falling momentarily comatose after each use, and while he’s been able to shorten that fallout period, the symbiote still needs time to take him entirely offline before he can repair. ]
(One of us needs to stay awake through this. Make sense?)
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[ there’s no lie or over-exaggeration in it, and Sam’s never been one to conceal things, least of all when it means injury to someone else, so Shepard gets a few snapshot glimpses of the full damage the hybrid state does to an advanced cylon mind, already built with an immense kind of processing power in comparison to a human brain. ]
( This power shreds any mind connected to it. I’ll have it on for 20 seconds max, then be passed out for 10 seconds max - the last 10 I have to use to get my ass outta here. ) [ the upside - sam can sift through the entire government archival database, find needed documents and transfer them in 20 seconds or less, impossible for even an phenomenally talented human code breaker to do, but he needs a backup for this reason exactly. the symbiote is the only thing that keeps sam able to come back as anything more than a vegetable from the ability, but it still takes a heavy toll, sam falling momentarily comatose after each use, and while he’s been able to shorten that fallout period, the symbiote still needs time to take him entirely offline before he can repair. ]
( One of us needs to stay awake through this. Make sense? )