The production of the nanoparticles absorbed by Alister involved several stages of 'manufacture' one of them being 'multiplex automated genome engineering', or MAGE.
Another stage of the production of the nanoparticles was 'mechanosynthesis; the engineering molecular scale components.
The third stage was the synthesis of a wholly new synthetic organism with the following properties:
The nanoparticles survival was dependent upon information or rather 'data' from a 'host' in the form of electromagnetic energy to survive.the nanoparticles could evolve - adapt to the host environment as long as that environment was one of data flow - for nutrition and for information about its environment. The nanoparticles communicated with other members and interacted with its environment.
Inside computers, the particles congregated in and around memory and the processor. In Alister, the particles moved through his brain and central nervous system, where the bulk of the data processing activity took place.
There is some debate about how 'aware' the particles are. The particles were built to communicate and naturally exhibit collective behaviour. This collective behaviour includes gathering and sharing of data about the condition of their environment and subsequently how best to protect and survive in it. This means that individually the particles can identify threats and use the host system to send alerts to both other particles and the host body, to generate defence mechanism. These defence mechanisms may be production of anti-bodies, faster neural connections and physical reactions or the blocking of abnormal 'infectious' signals in the system.
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