"Yeah, I can put you all in something armored up, what are you going to be shot at with?"

"Orcs definitely don't have light-leaping, definitely do have rocketry, I'm not sure what weapons lie in that range because again we didn't go through the ordinary technological path here."

"Anything radioactive? Can you quantify approximate explosive yield? What are they going to be using to detect you in the first place?"

"Perhaps we should send some autopiloted ships in first and see."

"Yeah, sure, I can get you drones."

"Thank you. Do you require sleep? Shelter I assume you can do."

"I can sleep but I can also just drink lots of coffee forever!"

He looks wildly envious. "Sometime you'll have to tell me more about how one becomes a demon."

"Some asshole shot me, that's how."

"I cannot describe how much I'd prefer it to Mandos. And Mandos isn't going to make me a new body."

"If the body is the only missing piece I can cover you on that."

"Can you try that. My father's dead - if you could reembody him before the Valar bother..."

"I can try; however, mindless bodies are pretty unpleasant to be around if you're not used to them and I don't know how you're planning to load a mind into it..."

"You'd need to copy it from Mandos. Can you do that with just a name?"

"Assuming no version control problems, should do, but how are you going to actually get it into the body?"

"...don't know. I always assumed it happened automatically once the chip that does osanwe and the backups and everything is in place."

"I can try this but I cannot guarantee that result, not knowing how your cyborg implants work. My 'no minds' hard limit has not been tested on software storage but may apply to it too. Also, Mandos will still have his copy."

"Mandos doesn't torture them or anything, it's wanting my father alive more than not wanting him dead...also I think Mandos would find the situation objectionable and wouldn't run his copy, at least."

"Like I said I'm willing to try it. What kind of substrate are the backups on, do you want me to just conjure both things in this room...?"

"Can you conjure our chip first, with his mind on it? They look like - let me look up some books for you, actually -"

"You have a way to check to see if it's a mind and not mysteriously-a-nonmind?"

"Not until you put it in, no - not if the difference doesn't show up in the code anywhere -"

"So what's the advantage of conjuring it that way first?"

"Oh, I suppose if you can just do it in the body that'd be even better..."

"Should be able to. Lemme have some more details about how these things work so I don't have to do it twice because there's something I didn't know and copy conjuration couldn't patch."