The Far Side of Utopia

Comic!

Little bit late. Hopefully this is the last time we’ll miss every-other-week for the time being, but not promising weekly yet.

It’s come up a few times, but <nuclear> and <radiation> are always in the Central language. I think this was probably most detailed on the Tyler side story long ago, but its technology that’s been suppressed. A side effect of a booster, particularly one like Naomi, is that they are immune to all but the most extreme doses of radiation. This is because the mechanics of boosting their physical form is constantly pulling on their eidos data, which serves, effectively, as a real time constant backup of their ideal physical state.

In extreme cases like Naomi, its why she is so hard to damage and heals from things that a human wouldn’t be normal to heal from, because even even she has – for example – a bullet hole through her shoulder, she is constantly restoring herself to her own eidos data subconsciously, and because of her mentality and nature, damaging her eidos data is nearly impossible. She isn’t entirely immune to poisons, though she recovers from them unnaturally quickly and tends to adapt to them after being poisoned, but something like radiation that takes affect slowly would have almost no impact. She is almost certainly entirely immune to something like a sunburn.

Naomi isn’t actually the most extreme case of being able to restore from eidos data in the comic (you can probably guess the most extreme example of this effect).