Xaviers!

"Well, I'm always happy to help you test countermeasures. It's only fair."

"I'll let you know once I have a prototype. My initial idea was to create recursive traps, data-sinks for errant signals, but I suspect my approach was wrong because it seems you're capable of skipping data-streams very easily. Adapting a program to that unpredictability will be tough."

"It's almost like you'd need a technopath in the system to fight off another technopath."

"I'm not going to lie, I do go out of my way to be on good terms with the ones I encounter." she says jovially.

"I suppose being the system has some advantages."

"It does. Though of all mutants, those whose focus is technology are more reliant on a good support structure, so I think it's a fairly mutual arrangement. Everyone has the potential to shape the future, but the world you control has only just begun."

"Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately depending on how one wants to look at it, our reliance on a good support structure makes us generally only good as support."

"Non-sense. You just have to work more for it. Sure, you could build that suit for someone else, but are they ever going to control it as well as you?"

"I suppose not," she says, "Speaking of which, I'm hoping to start on the hand programming soon. The leg programming seems to be holding up so far."

"Excellent. It should be easier having figured out the basic program structure."

"I hope to be in a position for physically prototyping the movement structure after the holidays."

"I look forward to seeing it."