Alex who was watching Sanako in silence looked serious. The slight insecurity that was ever present with him was still there, but by far not as noticable as usually. After she finished her explanation Alex finally spoke up.
What you are proposing is entirely possible. The problem is a different one however. First of all you didn't disclose your plans from the beginning and made us use resources on you that we could have used otherwise. If you just asked us to build that body for us we could have built it for you. Which brings us to the second problem. You see everything that makes you who you are is a mixture of information and chemicals your body dispenses - or experiences to be exact. Your mind will stay the same up to the point of being transfered into that new shell, but as soon as you're in there you're not capable of experiencing things the same way as you used to - for better and for worse. The chamicals your brain dispenses that make you feel things can only be replicated to an extend, and therefore new experiences you make will not seem as rich as they used to. In other words you would be incapable of feeling things by youself, because all of it will just be a simulation. I wouldn't be opposed to helping you with your plans if I didn't have to watch it happen already.
A man once came to us with a plan similar to yours in mind. He was old and knew that he didn't have much time left. He asked us to help him to transfer his conciousness into a new body - a fully synthetic one. After the procedure was complete he was overwhelmed with the possibilities his new body provided to him, but also underwhelmed with how 'flat' and 'emotionless' everything seemed. Slightly disappointed he thanked us and left. Only a few days later we got news that the man willingly caused the reactor of his ship to combust while he was still on board. Our work has driven him to suicide and I don't want this to repeat. After Alex finished he sighed and looked at Sanako with a pleeding expression, wordlessly asking her to understand.
Cybernetic enhancements are not just straight upgrades. The larger the part of your body is that gets replaced the harder it is to get back to your pre-modification self. I myself had huge troubles readjusting after I was modified and the only thing I gave up were my hands. Captain El Harady had his whole brain replaced, as well as an undisclosed amount of other body parts and it took him decades to re-adjust to the chemical imbalance. He's still not who he was before the operation.
Now this is what I would feel comfortable with offering to you: modify your own body to beat your sickness with your wonderful intellect and modify the parts of your body that allow you to excell at the field your specialize in, but don't try to create the perfect body. A body is just as good as the mind inside of it. I will help you with what you need to accomplish your goals in every way I can, not just because Captain El Harady asked me to do it, but because I care for your well-being. If you still choose to go through with your plans I am not going to stop you. I just wanted to tell you about the consequences and what I would be willing to assist you with. He smiled softly and waited for Sanako to take all of the information in. Alex hoped she would understand his concerns and change her mind. He cared for her just as deeply as he did for Bacchus, or Nate and Nikki. Come to think of it that was a little strange, since he had only known her for such a short time. Maybe it was something about living her whole life up to this point with this condition she had little hope of overcoming prior to joining the Canaan Project, or maybe it was admiration of the confidence she showed throughout all of this. Right now he just knew that he wanted to stop her from making a decision that could impact her whole life for the worse.
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