the long wait is shorter
The proto-blood in [i]The Giga Shadow[/i] was fresh from the insect. Maybe it is usually refined or distilled or mixed with something else before being put to use.
Kai needed to be decarbonized and fitted with cybernetics for the proto-blood to reanimate him, but Yottskry was just dead-dead when it dripped on him. Maybe that was more concentrated, and that’s why it had different properties than Kai’s and looked like frosting instead of gravy.
It’s my theory that proto-blood is the egg mass of the Insects, and that it contains nanites. Nanites are machines smaller than bacteria that could repair their cells, allowing them to last longer, reshape their tissues, allowing them to adapt, and help interfase boilogical and mechanical components of their being. Kai mentioned in [i]K-Town[/i] that he had some sort of micro-machinery. But the proto-blood (in a slightly different form) was also used to revive humans after His Shadow’s Insect body burrowed into the Cluster. The nanites could reanimate human tissue to a point but never bring the person back to life in full, since it’s calibrated for Insects and works with their less complex biology.
So what keeps Kai alive is what kept the Insects alive. Is any of this making sense?
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Lee P. Sherman, code name DalekTek790
Whovian, Froudian, Lexxian, etc.