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To: [Junior Genius]
From: [Senior Genius]



I trust you've been looking over the schematics I sent up - they're very heavily classified, by the way, and you'll need to wipe them from your computer when you're done with them. This isn't technology any of us want in the wrong hands. If it's all right with you, we'll be temporarily setting aside your other extra study projects to work on this... if we do need it again, it'll probably be desperately and in a hurry, so getting it fixed fast is a priority. And on a more sombre note - I'll feel happier knowing there's someone besides me who can fix it at genius-speed - should any harm come to both me and it, at some point, you're probably the only person who can get it running again fast.

Also, if you're one of the people I've snapped at of late - see my latest journal entry - I am sorry, and I trust that you are now cautioned of the subtle perils of overwork. It's a fine line, for some of us (especially those of us tragically burdened with genius, oh woe is us!), between staying amused and being hopelessly over-busy.

-Hank

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To: [Pan]
From: [Hephaestus]

Well, these are reasonably amazing. And believe me, I make a habit of bare-metal formatting my laptop every two weeks or so, security purposes and all.

This isn't all that different from what I concocted for Lorna, it's basically a psionic Faraday cage. Only of course, it has to be adaptive, hence the overload on the circuits.

Um, since when was Lorna an engineer? I can't see any other way that the different layers were given complementary magnetic signatures once it's installed.

I'll commit these to memory and be down tomorrow with some ideas.

JHF

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To: [Hephaestus]
From: [Vulcan]

They are, aren't they? Sadly, I can only take credit for the fine-tuning, not the original concepts and construction. Although I do think I improved it, Magneto built the first incarnation of the Box, and were I ever to actually have to build another one instead of simply replacing parts, I'd very much hope that Lorna was around - although I know how and why the magnetic layering works, I can't reproduce it as yet. Perhaps the two of us will be able to come up with something, though.

When we're done with this, I can let you take a look at some of our other equipment that deals with the psionic... it's insanely complicated, of course, building a technological construct that will interface with something as ephemeral as psi-energy. And it's very cool. *g* I've been tinkering with it for years and I never tire of it. It should challenge even you, I think.

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To: McCoy, Dr.
From: Forge, JH

WHO built the first one? Tell me that's some inside joke I'm missing.

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To: Forge
From: Hank

It's not for public dissemination, but I trust your discretion. A long time ago, Magneto was not the villain he is now. (Which is one of the reasons he's such a concern - he's at least passingly familiar with a lot of the tech we use) He and Charles did a great deal of their early work together, before their philosophies came into conflict.

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To: Hank Dr. McCoy
From: Forge

Well, doesn't that just flip my worldview a bit.

You know, what with the general stress levels around here (I'm chalking it up to everyone else being worried about finals as opposed to being generally irrational tools), I hear you've got quite the reputation at, shall we say, creative dispensing of unrequested cheer through use of ballistic devices.

In other words, some people need to get out of their hostile little funks by use of some serious water cannon power.

JHF

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To: Forge
From Hank

Oooooh.

I was going to bring out my old custard-pie throwing robot, but I like your idea better. I think you and I need to put some serious work into a Stooge Cannon... a devise which flings desserts and issues forth soda water with equal facility. ;) What do you say?

Green jello makes a very good weapon - it splooshes, is sticky, and doesn't stain like the red kind.