Talk:Digistruct

Aren't digistructed items "real" once they've been constructed, rather than high-tech sci-fi "hard light" objects?

In fact, there's some indication that they might need stores of real raw materials or parts to be provided to the digistructor (though this can possibly be transmitted over a distance to Catch-A-Rides from one of Scooter's shops).. in the quest "Scooter's Used Car Parts", Scooter asks the Vault Hunters to collect some spare parts because people (probably mainly the Vault Hunteres!) have been banging up his Outrunners, and he needs parts to fix them.

Considering this and disregarding concessions to gameplay, such as not having to return the Runners to a Catch-A-Ride or having to conserve them in any way, and that they can be "recalled" and disappear when a new Runner is generated, it seems that the Runners are in fact "real".

Also, the players' SDUs seem to store items by scanning them out of existence, not unlike the Monster prototype in T-Bone junction.. but it can only re-form the same item once (when you pull it out of your backpack), and not unlimited copies of the item.

Overall, I posit that the items (or at least the matter they're made from) is real matter, and that the digistruction system merely destructively "eats" the item for later reconstruction, either at the same station (or SDU) or at a different station. Heck, frighteningly enough, I also posit that even Fast Travel may work on similar principles!