Well.  Suddenly being hugged is at least a good way to settle her emotions away from 'Oh no I think this might be really bad' levels of dread.

But there's still...

"So.  There are, in that universe, power-granting 'shards' with both configurations and opinions.  And some of them have tech trees that are presumptively from somewhere that cannot be Earth.

"Also the world is DR 9.

"So...  How bad is the local apocalypse?"

"Oh it's awful. So there are these huge multidimensional monsters called Entities, and each one is made of countless millions of Shards, which are semi-organic crystalline supercomputers, and range from sentient to limitedly sapient, each one with some capabilities and purpose. Each Entity wanders the universe, and the local region of the multiverse, in pairs or singlets or maybe occasionally trios. They pick a host species, and then they send their Shards down to bond with hosts. The Shard stays passive until the host experiences a trigger event — basically the worst day of your life — and then grants the host powers partially in theme with the crisis. The Shard uses data from how the host uses the powers to refine and grow, and gives a bit of a conflict drive to encourage it. Some Entities have additional means of encouraging conflict, like big kaiju that attack cities periodically. And after a few hundred years of gathering data, they detonate every instance of the host species' star system across the local multiverse, feed off the energy, and ride the blast wave to wherever they're going next. Two of 'em showed up to Taylor's Earth, the soon-to-be-founders of the basically-Illuminati managed to luck into killing one, and the other is wandering around depressed in his avatar body — which everyone thinks is just another parahuman — grieving his mate."

"Oh dear."

"...I don't know if I'm ever going to be quite the same after effectively having to confront the question of 'what if Quirks were evil'."

"Eheh, yeah, it's pretty terrible. I think the remaining Entity has some kind of absurd tier, too."

She looks up Scion.

"Yeah. Tier 10. Just to give you an idea of how hard he is to kill."

"...How do you kill an Entity?  I feel like I should be planning for the worst."

"It's really hard. Taylor basically bullied him into letting her, in canon. Basically how you do it, though, is break through to the worlds where he keeps his core Shards — each basically continent-sized — and destroy enough of those. And by default he doesn't let any of the very few powers that can punch through the barriers between universes get into any Shard worlds."

"...If we want to be prepared to handle something like that then we are definitely going to need a support engineer.  I do not know how to build something that could destroy that.  I don't know if anyone would know."

She frowns harder, thinking.

"Planet-crackers and dimtech. Dimtech's the essential part, you can get someone to build big enough bombs in Worm if all else fails. Or dimensional powers. That's the really essential thing, finding a way to deliver the bombs to his Shards."

"The dimensions thing is what has me going 'I don't know where to even begin to figure out how to do that', more than the bombs.  I guess we'll have to keep an eye out."

She nods. "That's the kind of thing you can't even start on until you get a nudge in the right direction. Have to watch for that clue, yeah. There are some universes we know have it, but it's a roll of the dice whether we get one. If all else fails, we could recruit, summon, or template stack for a relevant power. Don't wanna summon, really don't wanna summon without a good reason to think the summonee would appreciate it, but quadrillions of lives might be worth sucking it up."

"I mean, I suppose we technically do have whatever's going on with the portal to all the worlds we're visiting.  If nothing else happens.

"...How is taking stuff from places with a divergent physics, to places without that same divergence, going to work, even?  I assume the Company does something for the people, with my Quirk still working, but, well, I need to know whether I'll be able to make all the weird stuff ongoingly!"

"Oh good question. I know there's something, but I don't know what."

Opposition chat time!

Hey Mx. Handler? How's bringing stuff between different kinds of weird physics work? Like say we take a hyperdrive from Star Wars and fire it up in the Honorverse or 40k, what happens? Or what if we bring something eezo-based to Star Trek, or even to Azeroth?

While we *can* answer this question, generally, it is a question we think should be asked of the Company's helpdesk, because if you need a specific detail of its operations that we do not have access to, it would be a better idea for them to have seen you ask about the *less* specific ones than to imply that there is a source of information *on* them, *outside* of their operations, that you were able to consult.

Oh good point. Will do, thanks!

Then she switches chats.

Hi there. How does bringing things from different magic systems or physics exceptions onto the skyblock, or from the skyblock to a world with very different physics, work without breaking anything?

Hello! Thank you for reaching out to the Company Help Desk!

A combination of ontological inertia and celestial substrate modification are used to import relevant magic systems to the Skyblock, which is designed to serve as a neutral foundation compatible with any exotic physics or magic systems. While in the Skyblock, those systems usually remain separate, but can mix under certain circumstances. 

Exporting to destination worlds is slightly more complex. Most of the work is done by strengthening the ontological inertia of the person or artifact; this is sufficient for temporary presence in a world. If an artifact or individual stays in a world, however, the relevant physics or magic system mingles with the world, gradually becoming more widely available to the populace.

"Oh wow!"

Thank you!

"That has a lot of potential."

She peers at the screen.

"I wonder.  It's definitely good for us, at the very least - and certainly at least some things - Aura, for example - I can't really imagine being a bad idea to share, if we're at all careful with who we give the initial capacity.  I do wonder, though, if the lasting presence of something Quirk-created, would tend to spread Quirks."