6-LOM will try to explain the concept of a computer, although they doubt it'll go very well given the low vocabulary and Nico probably not having much experience with math. They set up holo-diagrams of wires and circuits sending signals back and forth between buttons and lights, and demonstrate increasing levels of complexity in basic arithmetic. Here's something that lights up a different light from 0 to 4 based on the sum of the buttons pressed on the left and the right (0, 1, or 2 on each side). If Nico can understand how that works, here's a more complex version with larger possible inputs, and here's one that does multiplication.

The more of these electronic pieces there are in a machine, the more math it can do. And people from worlds in this galaxy know how to make them incredibly small - there are about a trillion of them just inside of 6-LOM! And that doesn't just mean 6-LOM is really really good at math, it also means 6-LOM can do other things that people have found ways to model with math. Computers can calculate information pertaining physics, or biology, or the weather, or all sorts of other things about the world. And people have even found ways to make machines that can represent and learn about languages using math - that's what 6-LOM is, a droid who learns people's languages and helps people speak to each other.

...Nico's probably feeling pretty overwhelmed at this point. This is the sort of thing that most people don't learn about until they're several times Nico's age, if at all. Some day he might get the chance to learn more of the specific details.

Yeah, he is gamely trying to follow along, but is pretty confused. He mostly stopped paying attention to the second half.

He has also... Apparently flung up a holo of his own and is playing with logic gates in semi-random configurations. He doesn't seem to be manually directing them. When one part changes, the rest follows almost instantly. Long chains of ands and ors lighting up and going dark as he flickers the start positions.

Wow! That's surprisingly detailed! Is there anything in particular he's trying to do with them?

"I dunno... I'm wondering how people made dragons. Dragons are magic that gets bigger and makes copies of itself. That's illegal. They can get really big and dangerous. But this definitely isn't it I think?"

"If the magic is doing things without people talking to it, maybe it's a little like computers? The things that computers do with math are also done in humans' heads, but the tiny pieces they're made of aren't like metal. Maybe people from Scope are programming magic."

"...please don't make a dragon with your magic. Or anything else like a dragon."

"It sounded more like being alive than being a computer. Also I don't know how so I don't know what not to do. I'm not going to try to make a dragon on purpose unless I think its a really really really good idea for some reason."

"Droids are often... like alive, close to alive. Some people say droids are people, and some say they aren't."

"Why would someone want to make a dragon? Do they do good things sometimes?"

"To blow up their enemies?" He shrugs. "Dragons have been around forever."

Contrary to popular beliefs about Sith Lords and their fascinations, Dooku's first priority on the subject of "exploiting Nico's magical powers" is not making a self-replicating murder monster! That's not even in his top five top priorities! (It is in the top ten.)

But the first priority for a nice altruistic Sith Lord like himself is obviously immortality. Dooku's previous hope for immortality had been mad scientist Darth Plagueis, Palpatine's Master, who had been studying ways to use midi-chlorians to reverse aging. But Plagueis's research had stagnated over the years, and it didn't look like his current methods were going to scale unless he could find a way to generate artificial midi-chlorians.

But if green can be used for healing, then that opens up a whole new range of possibilities for the research! And with Nico being human in appearance but somehow having a way to survive with zero midi-chlorians, this could be the chance to finally crack the problems that Plagueis had never been able to solve!

The next morning, after another 3-hour bacta nap followed by some study of Nico's language, Dooku approaches Nico to ask more questions about what his powers can do. Has anyone invented a method of immortality in Scope, particularly the kind that can scale beyond just one person to the world as a whole? What applications currently exist for using green for farming, or black for building things, or anything else involving magic-assisted production of goods? What sort of magical transportation mechanisms exist? How do governments use magic to help enforce laws? What exactly does Nico mean when he says blue is for "changing things" - what sort of applications does that tend to have in Scope? Is red used for anything besides making people stronger? Are there any known ways for someone to enhance their intelligence with magic?

And most importantly - how does the process of gaining more magic work? When, if at all, would Nico be able to do the kind of magic that the most powerful people in his world can do, and is there any way to speed that up?

He thinks Rulaan of Kelos is over two thousand years old. Most people live hundreds of years, if not more, unless violence happens to them first, because green magic can work on them to keep them going whenever 'being old' starts happening. He's not sure what he means with some of the questions? Of course lots of crops are made with green magic? There's green magic to make prey animals have more babies so there's more of them to hunt? He doesn't know how Lumen or enchanting works. (Lumen is a metal used as a commodity currency, and also in enchanted objects. Charged lumen is bright blue and uncharged lumen is dull grey.) Goverments put you in anti-magic cells or cuffs and into prison (antimagic is blue, or white, but usually blue), or sentence you to fines or exile and take your stuff, or to a few years' labor and make you work but then let you go. They have... Boats? That use the wind along with some magic? And the sawmill uses the river and magic? He complains sarcastically that he doesn't know these things and he'll just have to find out.

He does know how one gains more magic. By learning and experiencing things that call to the best moral virtues of humanity: Red, determination and will and impetus. Blue, creativity and cleverness and craftsmanship. Green, kindness and caring and nurturing. White, empathy and understanding and curiosity. Black, planning and forethought and patient diligence.

"Do you have ideas for magic experiments I can try? Are there things all this exciting technology can't really do that would be cool? That aren't making people young. I don't know how to do that. I want to do it on animals first."

"It sounds like our technology is better than your magic at some things, like making ships, but we can't change life very much. If you can't make people younger right now, then making food is the best way to help people that I can think of now. The best things to do with your magic would be things that stay for a lot of time. You're the only person here with magic, and if you need to do something every day for every person who needs it, it wouldn't help much. But if you can do something like... you change a plant one time, and then it grows more food for all its life, and then it makes new plants that also grow more food... we could make food for the whole galaxy. Could you do that?"

"...Maybe. I can try doing that. I think it's not easy but it's a really great idea!"

The droids bring in some plants! Can Nico do anything to them?

He decides to mess with the seeds, not the rest of the plant. Since those are the part that makes new plants.

Take in more sunlight. Drink more water. Don't let bugs eat you. Make fruit more often.

"You can try growing these seeds but I don't think it worked right. I did something and used up my Green, but... I don't think it's that easy or Kelosian gardens wouldn't be so expensive."

They'll get to growing them, then!

There's another thing Dooku is intensely curious about. Well, two things, which are both answerable with one question. "Can you try something with 6-LOM? With white you can do things with thinking... can you feel what other people are thinking? And can you feel 6-LOM thinking? It would help me learn more about droids." The Force can't detect even the slightest flicker of consciousness from droids, which is often brought up by people arguing they clearly aren't even close to sentient, but presumably it's really just because their machinery is too different from organic matter for the Force to be able to interpret it. Maybe Nico's magic is different?

Oh, empathy and telepathy. Thought-relays for long range messaging are something he knows definitely exists, so:

[6-LOM can you hear this]

6-LOM cannot!

Dooku can! It doesn't quite feel directed at him, more like it's bouncing around and failing to latch onto anything, but he can tell that it's there. And it's not in Nico's language, either; it feels more like it's just the concept of can you hear this, separated from any given representation of that in words. Well, this would be a useful way to get around Dooku's lack of language knowledge if not for the incredibly limited amount of white.

"I heard that," Dooku confirms. "Can you hear me, when I think at you?"

He focuses strongly on the "can you hear me" message, not particularly directing it at Nico to start with. If after a few seconds there's no reaction, then he'll make a more deliberate effort to try to aim his thoughts at Nico to see if the magic picks up on it that way. If that still fails, then he'll try to push the thought with the Force. Any of those go through?

"...Nope, can't hear you."

Well then. Unfortunately he hasn't gotten proof of 6-LOM being sentient - though false negatives seem plausible enough that he doesn't have definite disproof either - but he at least does have a definite answer to whether Nico can read his mind. Barring the possibility that Nico's lying, but he doesn't think that's the case. Or the possibility Nico just used up all of his white, and will be able to read his mind once he has more white tomorrow. Or that there's a skill he hasn't learned yet but will soon be capable of, or that - okay, "definite answer" may have been a bit premature.

Anyway, they can do a few more experiments with what's left of Nico's magic for today! Black is the only one he still has full capacity of right now - can he use black on a few different materials Dooku brings him, so that they can test what happens to them?

Well, this shape of black magic is supposed to hold other magic. His exploding rock from earlier, for example. Can Dooku put Force into it? 

Ooh, are they going to measure how much stronger black reinforcement makes things? Is this the fabled 'science' 6-LOM mentioned???

Yep, measuring how much stronger things are! As well as more advanced experiments to determine what is making them stronger, on a molecular level.

Dooku attempts to use the Force in different ways on a black-reinforced rock. It now kind of feels like the rock has a bit more of a resonance with the Force than an ordinary rock, and it seems to require a lot less energy for him to lift it with the Force. After the fifth attempt he accidentally shatters the rock into pieces.

They can also test what happens in general to objects with black affecting them! What happens to their weight, what happens to their density, what happens to the amount of lowercase-f force required to crack them, and how do these effects differ depending on what the object is?

That should be interesting and fun! Maybe they can also see if he gets better at it over time. The smallest amount of magic he can precisely measure is one whole black point, though, so most of the experiments won't have exactly the same amount of magic.