Random testrun, possible Mass Effect 2 spoilers, haven't played ME3 yet

[very_model_of]

-1-

[After moving in, Mordin is attempting to set up a new lab in whatever game he's been sent to.]

Primitive technology. Nothing resembling standard omni-tool interface. No high resolution scanners. No synthesizer.

[sigh]

Will have to make do.

-2-

[Things went poorly recently last time you were working with Mordin, especially for the Salarian himself. Some sort of disastrous adventure and personal tragedy. You were going to go cheer him up, but he seems in oddly high spirits.]

Ah, hello. How can I help?

-3-

[Mordin seems nervous, though its hard to tell.]

Glad I caught you. Something about past you should know. Need to clear the air.

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[trustycrowbar]

[He snorts, leaning on the counter.] These people aren't savages, y'know. I was even able to get my hands on a laser cooling array, but it's, uh... not as big as I'd liked.

[Well, okay, he can only hold one atom at a time. HOW IS HE SUPPOSED TO WORK LIKE THIS I ASK YOU.]

Oh, you talk to Dr. Van Richden yet? He's already started work on a monster cataloging system. I don't know if you'd call it a true taxonomy, really. More of a... survival guide. But he and Hiroshi would go nuts at the chance for a xenobiologist's review of the thing.

[very_model_of]

Had noticed remarkable hostility in local indigenous life. Worried of unusual appetite for Salarian flesh. Good to know problems are wide spread.

[trustycrowbar]

[Okay, he can't help but snicker at that.]

Yeah, luckily for you humans are just as tasty to those things. Humans and every other species you see in the city. We're just not at the top of the food chain anymore... Weird. That should probably sound stranger to me than it does...

Anyway, you got any more stuff to move in? I've got some data compiling from my last gamma scatter test--[which is physicist speak for "I'm pretending to do something useful and goofing off instead."] so I've got the time.

[very_model_of]

Arrived unemcumbered with anything useful. Lucky to have omni-tool.

[trustycrowbar]

So, what IS an omni-tool?

[very_model_of]

Multipurpose, haptic, rapid manufacturing and interfacing tool. Most likely more technologically advanced than available here, based on examples currently present.

[trustycrowbar]

Manufactoring, huh? What does it make? And what kind of haptic response are we talking here?

[The very mention of something being more advanced makes him one curious human indeed. Mordin may as well have DARED him to figure out how it works.]

[very_model_of]

Haptic in the sense of interactive holographic interface.

[He turns it on, sheathing his left forearm in orange diagnostic screens.]

Intended for making light weight replacement parts for field repairs. Mine is...altered.

[trustycrowbar]

[Gordon pushes himself away from the suspended countertop and moves closer, peering at the device. Something about the monochrome holograms that make it up look... oddly familiar somehow. Has he seen something like his before...?]

Izzat... wait... does that thing use some kind of zero-point probability stacking or a brane puncture function for the manufacturing source?

[very_model_of]

Not sure how that would work. No, uses small sample of element zero to generate mass effect fields, pulling matter from a predesignated outside source.

[trustycrowbar]

Sounds like a brane hybrid system then. Element... zero? What is that? Are we talking... [He paces a little, running a hand over his hair thoughtfully.]

A pure neutron-gluon mass maybe? No wait, I wanna say... I wanna to say that dark matter has to be involved somewhere. Yeah... Maybe a form of radiation-strained dark matter just after symmetrical reversion. Christ, no WONDER you don't need that much. The energy output there would be incredible...

[Maybe there IS intelligent life on this planet after all, right Mordin?]

[very_model_of]

Perhaps. Don't know the details. Theoretical physics not my specialty.

[trustycrowbar]

[He smirks over at the salarian and gives him a companionable whap on the shoulder before making his way towards the door.]

I'll let you work. Let me know if you need any help finding anything. Oh, and if you find yourself in the optical relay chamber, watch out; I've got it calibrated for a Cherenkov bombardment test on some anemoi later on... come to think of it you miiiight wanna just stay out of that wing of the labs to be on the safe side.

[very_model_of]

[The smile he gives in response to the whap seems to imply that he's thinking "We are engaging in human male bonding rituals, ergo I must respond with friendly body language, as is culturally expected of me."]

Good to know. Will avoid optical relay chamber for time being.

Hmm, would be interesting to see how cherenkov radiation could be created with this level of technology.

[trustycrowbar]

I told you; creativity. Let's just say there's a reason there aren't any microwaves anywhere in the building right now. [He follows that up with a brief, triumphant grin and ducks out of the room.]