Potato and Chip
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Oh I know, it's just that ceph nanomachines seem uniquely biologically focused (ceph nanomachines can enhance biology, modify biology, act as the intermediary between biological and mechanical systems, modify environments, act like a biological plague and so on) and pretty much every single game after the first one you had people constantly saying, "They're changing the environment to suit them." so often I started rolling my eyes. Like I get it, the ceph are changing earth's environment to better suit themselves because they intend to stay. You don't need to say it every time we enter a new map and see how the ceph have modified it. I even remember this being treated like a big revelation several times over a period of hours, like the writers expected me to have the memory of a goldfish or something. The story really hammered you over the head with the terraforming thing.She's never heard of Crysis or the Ceph, so she wasn't thinking in terms of terraforming when she bught it. She bought it because the description said that they were self-replicating nanomachines that could work outside a specialized environment, and none of the interstellar powers in the setting has technology that can do that.
Even the environmental shift the ceph were attempting I think was supported by a nanomachine plague. With the nanites killing people and then melting their insides into a biological slurry which the ceph harvested to power/supplement their terraforming activities. Even then the nanites weren't capable or disassembling biological matter, only capable of programming it to cause its own self destruction.
I guess my point is that these aren't general purpose nanomachines, they seemed specifically designed to work with biological material and while Sophia might not know that at the moment she'll probably realize just what these nanomachines lean towards when she finally starts studying them.
Getting these nanomachines to do something like construct machinery or extract metals might actually be harder then using them to giver your self a third mutant arm, a cybernetic eye, or speeding up the CO2 production of bacteria.
Side note; have you seen the mass produced versions of the nanosuits? Not the specialized stuff the protagonists have, I'm talking about the North Korean, mega corp, and United States Military stuff. I had forgotten how cool it all looked. I'd post it myself but I'm on my phone right now.