Reactivation

Two days ago, Rome finished her interrogation of the Overmind of Deucado. The only possibility was the Vuduri woman helping Troutman and Steele was not from Deucado and therefore never part of the samanda there. This led to a discussion of lie detectors which Rome likened to the espansor bands that Rei and she used to look into the other's mind. As far as everyone knew, they had no such thing on Deucado. Or do they?

     “Inside their heads, you say?” Rome offered. “Like the espansor bands?”
     “The bands are way better,” Rei said. “I wonder if we could make Paul Chung put one on and you could question him.”
     OMCOM stepped forward and said, “You may not need to.”
     “I don’t understand,” Rome replied.
     “Rome, within your head are all the components that make up the espansors. You could effectively build a one-way device with just your brain alone.”
     “How?” Rei asked skeptically. “How would she do that?”
     “If Rome uses two sets of non-matched PPT transceivers, she could bathe her subject, or their brain more specifically, with enough gravitic radiation such that her EM link could pick up the electrical activity in the subject’s brain and use a feedback loop to cause an equivalent resonance in her own brain. It would be identical to the espansor bands but without any hardware. She would become what your people refer to as a telepath.”
     “You do know I only have one functional set of PPT transceivers,” Rome pointed out.
     “I can reactivate a second set,” MINIMCOM said matter-of-factly. “It would not be a problem.”
     “No, you cannot,” Rome countered. “Once they are deactivated, they can never be reactivated again.”
     “With your Vuduri technology, that may be true,” MINIMCOM corrected her. “But with my null-fold, I have the capability of reactivating them again.
     “Impossible,” Rome scoffed.
     “Not impossible,” MINIMCOM replied. “Back on Helome, when I was in the science lab with you and Virga, I saw your genetic chart. You actually have the potential for three sets of autonomous PPT transceivers. Not only can I reactivate your original connection to the samanda of Earth, I could even activate the PPT transceivers that would connect you to MASAL’s samanda.”
     “I’ll pass on MASAL’s, if you don’t mind,” Rome said with some disgust. She cocked her head. “You can really do that? Reactivate me?”
     “Are you sure you want to do that?” Rei asked. “When Estar did it to me, it hurt like hell. And I remember the scream you let out when Pegus reconnected you.”

I don't know about you but the whole thing sounds a little bit scary. The computers seem confident but then again they are not human. However, Rome and Rei have trusted them with their lives many times over and they never let them down. I wonder what is involved.