I’m not a vet but I BELIEVE they come with plastic sporks… The ones I had as a Boy Scout had those, at least.
It sounds like it varies depending on the manufacturer. A lot of pics that I found had forks or fork/spoon combinations. I guess we can experiment and see what joke works best.
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Well considering that I named my character John and played him as an stoic no none-sense soldier with an female AI companion named cortana I think I know which I will take. Dove and Lynx are also interessting.
question: How important will character from outside of your squad be? Will they have their own relationship paths for them?
The character from outside the squad will have a pretty interesting impact and can lead the MC down a distinctly different path if you persue her. (I keep thinking about gender fluidity but I originally wrote her as female.)
I will say she is 100% normal, you will meet her when I write the bar scene and while all characters have an opportunity to explore humanity in varying ways, the contrast between you and her will be interesting.
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Intriguing. Does the different path only occur with a romantic relationship? Are you going to write a male version of the character, or keep the original female version? Just curious if my main character might end up there; sounds like the kind of thing I’d explore on a second playthru anyway 
You can still sympathize and follow Alex(a)'s path even if you don’t pursue them as your RO (friendship is always an option!) You will always encounter her at the bar as she works as the bartender. The bar will be one of the many possible places that you can go in your free time in Chapter 3.
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@IronRaptor will it ever be possible to get rid of the AI in future books in the series.
I have 2 ways in mind, yes.
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A massive EMP burst? Being electrocuted? Death? LOL
AI is EMP shielded, so that won’t happen. I do believe that electrocution would not bother it either.
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a random lurker appears I am completely horrified by this.
@IronRaptor Also, I’m like, 2 days late to the conversation, but…my stepfather is a vet, and so was my grandfather. MREs have a fork and a spoon. At least the ones in the National Guard do.
They look a little like this
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What metal or alloy is nanobots made up of
@IronRaptor All this talk of killing the AI makes me wonder. What would happen to the AI if the MC died? I suppose it would die too, but…
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Tell me, how did you die?
I’m having a hard time finding the post, but after a conversation I believe that a biological bot would be deployed instead of an unprotected mechanical one. I believe the consensus was that a metallic nanobot would have been hit by the EMP. A biological bot would have been unaffected.
Ah, it depends on the way? 
What about if they died by being shot or something similar, since that seems the most likely given their line of work.
This is where we start cutting hairs. The AI is housed in an EMP shielded “box” (for lack of a better word atm) that is connected to your brainstem and part of your spinal cord, giving it access to your neural system.
So, if I were to come up to you and shoot at you, while you’re unprotected, in the back of your neck, you both are dead. Now, with all that said, we’ve already given the AI the ability to harden your skin into metals, you’ll eventually be able to phase through objects and things of that nature later on. A standard kill is going to be hard to come by while you have power. If you are completely out of juice and you’ve burned your “overdrive” then you are really in trouble.
Now, can there be a scenario where you die but the AI survives? The only one I can think of is if you take brain damage. The nanites can heal your brain but are “you” still currently in there? It might be worth exploring.
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is a chip(?) in our brain or basically half of our brain is a computer?
something is wrong here.....
Ooh you got all plot holes covered already as I thought that mechanical bots could be easily removed from our body but them being biological makes it hard for us to remove them.
So a situation where you get shot in the head and have severe neural damage done to your brain that can’t is repaired. So something like Fallout New Vegas, but with a hint of Prototype in there.
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I need to refresh my memory on Prototype. If I remember correctly, the guy gets injured, virus heals him but it is no longer the original host but it is just an embodiment of the virus within Patient Zero. An embodiment that recovers fragments of his memories over time, right?