Comment Homeworld: Cataclysm (Score 2) 93
Whoever has played Homeworld: Cataclysm should see some similarity between this, and the game (which is a little scary really).
Little ittie bittie spoiler here:
For those of you who haven't, here's the gist of it: You're crusing around space and pick up a chunk of metal. On it is this semi-organic stuff. It actually is made up of lots of really small, nano-sized, half-robot, half living beings. They take over whatever they touch (basically) and convert it to whatever is needed. People's bodies are converted to neural networks (and are torn apart in the process, quite painfully). Ships are converted to be used by the nano-organism. Cataclysm page.
There really are some scary implications to this. Say someone sprayed a whole bunch of them on you, or dumped some in your glass, what then? They get inside of you, and could basically do whatever they wanted to.
Not fun.