Intergalactic Summit

Honestly, if the goal is simply to communicate information from within the quarantine to researchers outside, I'm sure there are still plenty of people already within the containment zone. They can communicate outside without breaking quarantine or resorting to outlandish ways to expose more people.

But can they perform experiments?

This is certainly a far better idea.
Though that begs certain logistical questions in regards power and other provisions for the robotic bodies, and also how possible it is to reduce the scale of required controls from starship connections to a pod down to the basics of the robotic body, and whether or not direct connection to a pod is required, or remote connection to a robotic body will work.

Currently, empyreans and clone troopers interface directly with all technology they control.
Even the drones deployed by my own people still rely on a primitive AI rather than direct capsuleer control.
I am afraid I cannot, off the top of my head, recollect any technological situation of directly remote controlling an object in the same manner with which I can currently control a ship or my own body, without being directly connected to it, in the manner we are suggesting.
Everything else, drone, fighter, probe, etc, still relies on AI and programmatic control, which has limits (unless you are doing something considered illegal with AI, which has a history of being a dangerous path to follow).

This is not to say it is not possible, just that I do not have to hand or in memory any situation involving remote control of bodies of any description, by capsuleer or other clone-based user, that was not 'merely' a programmed AI following remotely transmitted instructions, rather than a capsuleer (forgive the use of the word, please) 'wearing' such a robotic body via remote telemetry.

If this can be achieved, however, it certainly is the most ideal solution suggested thus far, and I am interested to be educated on any point which would give more likelihood to the use of this suggestion as a means to investigate the situation at hand.

I was thinking more along the lines that a capsuleer can accomplish far more on site and in person than a drone under remote or AI control. Importantly a capsuleer can also give real time feedback on the effects of the pathogen at the time.

As for the memories gathered during the investigation is it possible to compare the backup brain dump with a brain dump from the volunteer and filter out the damage from the rogue prions? Or alternatively is there any way to re-purpose a skill extractor to gather the research information from the capsuleer and then digitize this across into a remote skill injector?

Again this isn't my field of expertise so just throwing out ideas.

A capsuleer 'wearing' a drone body via FTL fluid router connection is practically the same thing as being there in real time, especially considering that there are no latency delays in quantum entanglement communications technology.

Unfortunately, the TBC cyborgs have organic brains and are thus vulnerable to infection themselves.

The most difficult part of dealing with a pandemic on the level of lethality as Kyonoke is opening the door and not letting anything out, IMO. In this day and age, the rest is just a matter of resources. People are seeing the wrong problem.

If I were in government and had to approach this (thank the gods i don't though!), what I'd do is get a shortlist drawn up of likely targets the culprits behind this are going to hit next based on any perceivable patterns. population, demographics, industry etc. Then, ship in some advanced remote-operated avatars in the vein people are talking about + whatever research equipment would be needed in advance.

If the right people are smart, this has already happened with the later outbreaks. A situation like this can't be approached purely reactively. Play around with a zone that's already exposed and you're inviting disaster.

However, an even better solution might be to construct a closed facility around the original pit, and then send some (hopefully brainless) humans and tissue samples in on a one-way-trip. (It would have been smarter still to have done that years ago and not in the middle of a crisis, but here we are!)

Please don't misinterpret the name "Kyonoke Pit," Ms. Sung. It's an orbital mining facility, not a conventional pit mine. It's been under heavy (and then, after the first breach, heavier) security, and there's been a research program there pretty much the whole time since the original outbreak at the Pit.

Well-- it's out, now, and, it's planetside in at least one place, and, its characteristics have changed to emphasize contagion over swift death. Either it's mutated (how does a prion-like protein object mutate? It doesn't have DNA! It's just a troublesomely-shaped knot of protein!) or it's been modified, probably purposefully (which, again, is astonishing and scary, because, again, it's not a virus, it's a mass of protein).

(Oooor, so we're told. I'm guessing there are a few things that aren't in the public record, because there are a few possible characteristics that might explain this that telling people about would be so very stupid.)

Anyway, yeah. We're basically stuck in the position of chattering about this because there's really nothing we personally can do. This is mostly a not-capsuleer kind of problem.

So, we're doing what we can: chattering.

Yes, but trying to replace entire nervous systems with telemetry systems and quantum brains and getting them to interact with the rest of the organic body is significantly trickier than just building an entire artificial polymer-and-carbon-fibre body. I say it's probably far easier to just build said body instead.

The trickiest part, however, is to create a telemetry system that is connected to but exists outside of the capsule to allow the capsuleer inside to connect to the robotic body, and the writing of the software that enables that. If the TBC cyborg control system includes such a telemetry system, reverse engineering that will shorten development time drastically.