He's alive! Part 3

Yesterday, Rei received a shock when he found out that OMCOM's magic yellow pill did more than just fix his back pain. We had assumed by this point in Rome's Revolution that MINIMCOM was not dead even though he was crushed beneath the Ark II. In today's installment, Rei finds out the changes that have occurred within MINIMCOM:

     “Helpful how?” Rei asked. “What are you doing with them?
     “Well, you do know that the Vuduri installed a memron fabricator in my hold before I launched.”
     “Sure. So what?”
     “Well, before we left Tabit, OMCOM uploaded the enhanced manufacturing protocols that Rome introduced in order to create the star probes.”
     “You mean the PPT override?” Rei thought.
     “Yes.”
     “You mean he was able to give you permission to make them too?”
     “Oh yes. He thought I should be in a position to fabricate star probes and VIRUS units after we arrived at Deucado. He wanted me to set up a defensive shield. He probably had not foreseen that they would be rummaging about me in quite this fashion. But as it turns out, the VIRUS units have become very cooperative. They have been assisting me.”
     “Assisting you to do what?” Rei asked. “Are you talking about illegal stuff?”
     “Not exactly but OMCOM told me that your expression is that the genie is already out of the bottle. I have the ability to create very nearly anything that I feel is necessary.”
     “Great!” Rei thought to himself. “So what are you doing with your magical new powers?”
     “While I have been waiting here, I have taken the liberty to modify some of the VIRUS units. Quite a few actually.”
     “Modify them how?”
     “Let us just call them helper units. Perhaps constructors might be a better word. I am using them to replace the spacecraft’s original structures and materials with a more ‘flexible’ arrangement. Currently, they are busy rebuilding this tug using a slightly different set of specifications.”
     “Different how?” Rei asked, slightly worried.
     “Well, for example, my physical form, the one you were familiar with, the white box, has now been integrated within the ship. I am the tug and the tug is me.”
     “You sound like the Beatles,” Rei said. “And these constructors, they are just VIRUS units, right? Aren’t you worried they will get out of hand?”
     “The unmodified ones have been placed back in confinement. The modified ones do as I bid. They are not allowed to reproduce without permission. They will not get out of hand as you say.”

Tomorrow, MINIMCOM reveals his final piece of magic. One that might just get Rei out of jail free.