Explaining the Medical Teleporter Away

Well... I suppose those patches are really awesome at their jobs given they get atomized, flambe'd, nuked, irradiated, water blasted, spored, electrocuted, probed, drenched, and dimensionally screwed with every single day of their lives.

And personally, I kinda think that there is a set of range limits on the suckers with relay's set up in locations likely to need them (like the Hero's having Relays set up by Longbow in Rogue Isles and so on).

This reminds me, I need to get down this friggin semi-fanfic that's been eating away at my imagination so it goes away.

A SG I joined recently wanted to have some more variety in our play so we imposed 'limitations' on the toons. Since the theme was Deities pulled through time we RP'd that our chronal vibration was off by such a degree as to render the Medi-Port inoperative to us.

RP is RP.

We simply moved the box to the corner of the screen and if we died it required a rez on the spot. The Medi-port has to be manually activated by default anyways.

Aside from that, I've always appreciated that they took the time to explain it in the lore. Reminds me about the explanation of floating chocolate being all over the place in a great game about a squirrel.

As for how I think they will explain one of the 8 going down...
I think they will end up pulling a Hero-1 and like the poster said above, having them be absorbed by a Shivan and turned into an mutated version for us to fight down the road.

There's also a story arc in Grandville where you reroute Mynx' medi-porter to teleport her into a Crey facility once you beat her down. 'course she survived because Heroes get plot immunity, but still. Just another example of the medi-porter being rendered useless/detrimental in the game.

So yeah, it's pretty much just the story-gameplay-segregation others have mentioned. The mediporter will never fail us, but it will conveniently become useless to everyone else.

Perhaps the teleporter isn't a teleporter but a handy disintegrator that eliminates the dead body and activates a clone version in the 'hospital'.

Why do the surviving 8 only use wakies? They know the truth!

"You want me to stick my head in something built by Dr. Aeon and Crey and give them full read/write access to my brain. ... Either you're far too stupid to be allowed out in public, or you must think I am."

Yeah, AE's official backstory is epic fail, as far as something that any of our characters with half a clue would actually use.

EDIT for Evanescah, below: Yes, exactly. Same here.

I personally blank all these lore discrepancies out of my mind when I'm role playing or writing my lame fan fiction. There such things as medical transport technologies, that much is clear but in my head it's no sure thing, it doesn't always work, and you'd rather try to get out of the situation rather than ever rely on it. In my fan fiction, my characters don't trust it. In my own head, the villains I defeat are apprehended by the police and sent to jail - but that part just isn't shown because it's boring. Like how you never see James Bond use the bathroom. Obviously he has to at some point, but that's not important to the story.

When I'm defeated (when RP as my blaster that's like every 5 mins) I pretend that I was merely knocked unconscious or knocked clear of the battle. But I don't like it when the Lore gets in the way of this and I think it would be best if the Mediport stuff didn't become a plot point because it raises too many questions with contradictory or nonsensical answers.

But I also ignore "repeat" crime. Like if I clear a mall of villains or clear the Ritki out of that bridge by the water in Founder's Falls...I'm not bummed that more appear right away. I just ignore that and continue my story as if i really cleared the area. I can't get caught up in stuff like that or it ruins the game. It's like watching a movie if you know a lot about how movies get made. The more you know, the less you can really enjoy it I think.

It's like trying to talk to NPCs, ya know? Actually, with this one thing...http://cleverbot.com/
that would be really fun if you could set that up with some NPCs...especially if you didn't tell anyone - it might actually fool people into thinking they were chatting with someone maybe - especially if their responses were Lore specific.

E.

A concept I've seen is that arresting is also done via a teleport network - you knock 'em down/out, then attach an arrest tag (much like modern Trek's transporter tags, as seen in Insurrection et al) and they're beamed away to the Zig for processing and, if necessary, medical attention (for those who do their "arresting" with guns and blades). Devouring Earth aren't supposed to wind up in the same holding cells as Hellions and Skulls, but mistakes happen.