• ThePyroPython
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    20 days ago

    Huh, why have we never seen any of the Engineers ever replicate some zip ties or duck tape?

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      20 days ago

      Don’t they phaser-weld? I know they use phasers to cut through bulkhead doors and stuff on occasion, but I feel like there are scenes where they use the same mechanism to weld things for repair as well… Perhaps they made a point to only build with materials that could be repaired that way? And depending how phaser-welding works, that could be a wide range of materials.