[quote=@Prince of Seraphs] Would his telepathy world on Eight? I sort of had this idea that Eight would be able to detect telepathic static wavelengths but because his brain is part computer he wouldn't be able to translate it into words. [/quote] That's actually a really fascinating concept, I hadn't thought about it. To reference the [i]Animorphs[/i] series, Andalites were able to communicate without trouble to a race of highly advanced androids called the Chee, but their makeup is probably completely different than Eight's since the nanites that rebuilt him were of human construction (I assume, from reading his bio). I don't know the exact parts of the brain activated by thought-speech since K.A. Applegate never explained it, but I theorize that it works much like verbal communication, barring the actual verbalization, in that the speaker's telepathically projected message is received in the speech-centers of the brain and translated into words that the hearer can comprehend. Eight's ability to understand would be dependent on how much is left of the part of his brain that processes language. However, given that intercom communication translates thought-speech into audio (this is canon in the books) I think it's safe to assume that Eight won't have any trouble understanding Deraen, unless the robotic and human parts of his brain conflict with translation. On an unrelated note, I was going to comment on how similar Eight's healing/transformation was to the Doctor Who episode "The Empty Child" and how nanites reconstructed what they thought was a healthy human, though of course you've added your own twist with the computer integration, I was wondering if that's where you got your inspiration from.