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Suits and Portals Theory wrote: The empty suits in Submachine 10 seem to raise a lot of questions, don't they? For example:

Why do explorers need them? Doe that mean that they are protecting themselves from something? Does that mean that we can't breathe the Submachine atmosphere? Does that mean the Player is wearing one too?

Well, I have a simple answer: the suits weren't made for protecting explorers.

They were made during the reverse-engineering of the portals.

How difficult would it be to make a cold-hard machine override its recognition of hard-bound metal and circuitry and replace it with pure organic material? You would have to somehow reprogram the very core of each machine to recognize a whole new composition, and with the amount of portals spread throughout the net, that would be very time consuming. Sub6 talked about the "reverse-engineering" of the portals to make them unavailable to sub-bots and available to humans.

So, what if the humans...cheated a little bit?

They put on metal suits. Suits that were effectively containers, jars to hold and move whatever's inside. The portal doesn't use human recognition at all. It recognizes the suits as sub-bot material. Then, when the machine is fired up, it willingly transports the "sub-bot" suit, and whatever is inside. Which in this case would be human.

But that's not really reverse-engineering. So what did we do that could make the portals accessible to us, but not to Sub-bots (giving the phrase "Primary function deleted")?

Easy. We reprogrammed the coordinate interface. Not by recoding the recognition interface, which would have to have a complete knowledge of human DNA, but by changing a plate and a couple of wires.

Think about it: what use do robots have for nine-digit plates and an activation button when they can just stick a connection pod in and get what they want that way, like they do in the edge?

The nine-digit buttons is the reverse-engineering. All the portals used to have connection pod terminals. But a couple wires were changed, a different front plate and display inserted, and now humans can use them with numbers. The sub-bots would have no idea what to do, as they would never be programmed to use the buttons.
Reverse-engineering done.

So does that mean our Player wears a suit? Probably.