"I've finished setting up. It'll take a bit longer for the magicite resonators to finish but I can explain what they'll do. Magicite resonators require external energy input to function, you can supply this energy with a heat differential, an electric current or via vibration similar to piezo-electric crystals. The first three resonators here are encoders, all encoders work upon being touched by a person. They first obtain consent from the person they're touching and they store a person's genetics code, mind-state and enough information about the state of their body to allow minimal adaptation for an individual when re-embodied. The first of the encoders is a datastream encoder. After it stores a pattern it'll encode it into the structure of a crystal or several other types of data storage devices. The second encoder will archive the person's pattern in the Heart's Archive and output a token that can be used to lookup the data. The third encoder will store the pattern into the user's non-corporeal metadata substrate, what we colloquially call a soul, this third type of encoder is still undergoing testing because we're not certain if the soul can stably store this much information. Do you have any questions or should I continue? The full documentation will also be on the data storage device when I'm finished transferring it if you're not interested in the details."

"Is the Heart's Archive special in some way or is it simply a very large magical archive?"

"It's stored by what was prior to encountering your organization the closest thing we were aware of to a god. The Heart is the origin of our primary magic system and it exists within its own realm which continually expands as those with its magic use that magic to learn and do more things."

"How do you assemble new bodies to transfer into?"

"These next two resonators are decoders. They'll take a lot more energy than the encoders. You need to pair them to some sort of container or vessel by tapping them on the side. Then they'll begin constructing a new body based and mind from whatever pattern they're provided, either as a retrieval token or a full datastream. They work faster when provided with a medium that is close in elemental and chemical composition to the body they're supposed to construct. They also have safety interlocks that prevent them from using the bodies of living sapient beings from being utilized. In theory, they could construct a full body from the air and input energy but the costs are so astronomically high that we've never actually tested it. The second decoder is paired with the third and it also has the ability to summon and read from a soul, that will only work if the soul isn't currently embodied though, again it's a safety interlock."

"When you say Elemental, you mean periodic and not classical, yes?"

"Yes, this magic system doesn't have a mystic elemental classification."

"What components of the resonators run on nonstandard physics? Or are they entirely magical?"

"For most intents and purposes they're pure magic. They pretend to obey conservation laws but they exceed the maximum efficiency thermodynamically possible as best as we can determine. Some of the energy absorbed is used to power the computation required to perform the operations they're designed for and our experiments suggest it performs computation at an efficiency approximately equivalent to the Landauer limit, which is to say the maximum theoretical efficiency for any computational operation. When a resonator operates on the world though it needs to pay the full energy costs of whatever it's doing though, from elemental synthesis to fusion of elements to chemical synthesis and the creation of charge differentials. The only exception is when it's copying a magical effect from another system of magic or an effect of exotic physics that exceeds those standard limits."

"But if you're using them commonly the energy limit can't be that strict. Or you have some major energy source?"

"Fusion works for most purposes. Hydrogen is cheap. This resonator is a fusion generator." She points to one which has a large number of indentations in the surface. "It'll supply power to a linked resonator if you toss it in either a tank of hydrogen or a tank of water, though it's more efficient with hydrogen."

"We should have no difficulties supplying energy, then. Are there any other components?"

"I'm just making one of each of the resonators we distribute to other civilizations, among the remaining three one is a more durable data storage device for use with the encoders. It has a mental interface which allows you to select one of the stored patterns for use with a decoder. The second device is a general purpose healing device, it operates much like the decoder but repairing damage rather than creating a body from scratch. It will address most conditions but it will only treat the symptoms of genetic conditions rather than editing the genome. There are a variety of documented limitations. The last is a womb-tree regulator. It'll either create or repurpose a plant into one designed to sustain and bring to term a of any species programmed into our central medical archives. The regulator also serves as an interface to assist those carrying a pregnancy with understanding how that might be transferred to its care or allow individuals who would typically be incapable of conceiving do so."

"Fascinating. Oifilei will love it."

She smiles. "Does that about cover it?"

"It does for resonators. You also seemed to be requesting an example of the nanotech based method. Samples of the nanites are stored in an inactive state within that case, and the details on how to use them are stored in the data storage device." She indicates the two metallic devices on the table. And all of that's finished now."

"- I'll need to keep that case in isolation until it's verified as safe. Theta has nanotechnology but it's all persistently infected by a nasty virus so we don't export any of it off-plane. We're cautious about this sort of thing."

"We wouldn't give it to you if we didn't think you'd take precautions like that, nanotechnology is dangerous."

"I'll have it securely teleported to an isolation demiplane now, if you don't mind."

"Of course."

She taps her watch, and the case disappears. 

"Back to freedom of movement?"

"Certainly, what does freedom of movement mean to you? I can see a spectrum of freedom ranging from anyone being allowed to teleport to anywhere else at will to controlled border crossings where anyone who can reach the checkpoint is free to traverse when certain conditions are met."

"We do teleportation circle networks. Small flat fee for transposition of everything you can fit in the circle, traditionally a person and what they're carrying."

"That seems broadly acceptable, I think we would have three concerns. First, there are some items like certain kinds of resonators that we would prefer not be transported beyond our sphere. Two we'd prefer people not be able to bring weapons or other highly dangerous items into our sphere. Three if we end up being an attractive location for migration we may need to place temporary limits on throughput while we build up our infrastructure."

"We have a sponsorship system for habitation on Trade worlds, we could treat your worlds as Trades. They seem to satisfy the criteria more or less. And of course there are import and export controls between any two planes."

"Then I think we can tentatively agree. Any large decision like that will need to be approved by the assembly of course but I expect it will be passed."