[Rising Dragon]

Originally Posted by Renegade334

Well, regardless of whether the artifact's digital contents are safe or not,

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what the Librarian said to MC about matter-to-data conversion...supplies enough good reasons to worry about the guy's survival/digital integrity.

She did, after all, state that the stored personalities were "fragmented" and that attempts to reverse the process "only created abominations".

...Unless the Forerunners, during the final months of their chronicled existence, released a series of bugfixes through Windows Update to parry this problem?

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Well, we've seen what the digital conversion looks like in-game already, and we saw that this was not it. No disintegrations like what happened with the good archaeologist, and if you look closely, there's white light mixed in with the orange electricity/digital graphics. It seems to imply a dyson sphere effect, like how Onyx was a 300-million km diameter world held within a shiny white ball of light a few meters across in diameter. And the scientist was clearly pulled in instead of reduced to particles. So I don't think it's the digital storage methods of the Composer in play here.