This corner of her domain is much like the rest of it: damp, chill, and dark. No one's in the area and there's nothing being grown, so she indulges herself with a shower of the sort of piercing rain that drives straight through clothing to soak a person to their bones. No lightning, though. She doesn't approve of storms.
"More my robotic nature than a recording device, my memories are also being updated to remote backups in regular compressed bursts."
Do you have any philosophical concerns with spreading yourself in time and space like that?
"Not really no, there's four copies of me that I know of. I was born on a world far from the institute, I got copied by powerful magic with something of a mind of its own, and two copies have been derived from that one, me and another who is travelling back to the world that I was born on."
I find the concept of distributed disconnected consciousness odd. I am distributed, but never disconnected.
"It was troubling when I first realized what had happened, but only because of the difficulty involved with seeing those I love again. I would be surprised if you could maintain that connectivity between different planets. Nothing we've encountered so far has been able to send information faster than light, and while light travels extremely fast, it is not infinitely fast."
"Given that you lack knowledge of people using electric lights I'm not surprised, it's rare to have rocketry before electricity, though I suppose it's possible a society with gods like yourself might be able to find a way."
"That sounds like an interesting thing to try yes, if you can break the speed of light barrier I will admit that will alternately excite and terrify my superiors."
"It means that a lot of limits on what can happen are broken. Most of our plans for defending ourselves from attack are based on enemies moving at most at the speed of light."
"There are paths through reality which we call threads. You can through either certain magics or advanced technology throw yourself into a thread. While you're in a thread you're travelling at the speed of light but no time passes from your perspective. You can ask magic or someone else at your destination to pull you out, though it is possible someone you weren't intending to meet can pull you out instead. Our first line of defenses for our worlds rely on pulling people out before they get near our worlds."
"That doesn't surprise me, they're only really useful when you have the technology, or a form of magic that lets you make bobbles [zones of frozen time that dissipate after a certain amount of time has passed in the outside world]. The local language doesn't have a word for that though so I doubt you have a way to create them."
No. Perhaps there might be a god who has an acolyte power along those lines, but I do not know of one.
"That is unfortunately not a question I can answer for you. It's a lot of physics and math that is more sophisticated than I understand, and for information security reasons I'm not carrying a textbook."
"Depending on how long I'm here I'll eventually need free space in direct sunlight. Otherwise not really no."