What about the micrometer-scale transistors for control and the precision of one thousandth million of a second needed to communicate with it? Both will need super tight tolerances which will make inventing smaller and more powerfull engines seem a ballpark (yes, engines need metallurgy, but...
Thanks for the translation.
The one thing I love in knight run is how it blurs the line between right and wrong, and every motivation is quite grounded in reality (AL tries to become the sole governance of humanity, befalling the Zails. Ideally the Zails should choose to be assimilated, but...
Yep, how do they work isn't mentioned in the anime, so we could only theorize. It's a major premise (and can be a plot hole for sure), but detailed explanation is not strictly necessary since this is a romance-drama and not sci-fi. Granted, a more detailed explanation can make more sense, but...
I dunno, it can also truly be a technical reason why they cannot do that (the same as why you cannot just copy some installed application from one computer to another and expect it to work there)
Well, I think it's more of a integrity corruption, the same kind that plague old computers (not old in the sense of very old hardware, but just computer that has been used for a long time without any OS clean install). You know, things like broken shortcuts, corrupted files, default program...