Remote Operations

Drawn by Valery91Thunder ( www.furaffinity.net/user/valer… )
Originally posted at www.furaffinity.net/full/12072… .

While Dee's learned to enjoy her various odd-shaped prosthetics, sometimes performance is more important than aesthetics. Here, we see a remote-controlled robot shaped the same as her original body, which her brain grew up controlling, giving her the finest possible control and best possible reaction time.

Why did't she just suit up and head out herself, you might ask? Well, for one, this repair is taking place on the outside of a rotating habitat. Should she both lose her grip and the safety line break, she'd be flung away into the Deep Black. For another, it's not exactly a healthy environment - she's repairing the super-conducting coil which emits the electromagnetic field which protects that part of the hab from radiation. Plus, as you can see by the red glowy bits coming out of the vents, there's some emission of coolant that's been heated into red-hot gas, spreading out enough that you can see the beams from some of the warning lights...

Don't you worry, though, as the solar system's first superfrieghter, the Zip (SF-0), does eventually make it to the asteroid (442) Eichsfeldia, safe and sound.