Talk:Shiftmorphing/@comment-4441317-20180807234252/@comment-4867780-20180808042630

1. Yes, provided the object isn't too high-level and/or double-edged. Considering cosmic cubes are alien artifacts choke full of raw reality-warping energies of cosmic level, a merging attempt would most likely backfire in a number of tragical ways unless you have the right preparatons on your side (like sufficient training/exprience or the right assistance).

2. Technically yes, althoughit would require having previously merged with similar machinery, other you would have no idea how to turn the boulder into said machines. The second example falls in the previous point above, as a noob symbiotically messing with a high-level artifact ranks pretty high in the oh-shit scale. On the other hand, broken ones tend to retain very little of their former powers and are often no more than fancy raw materials, so you probably couldn't achieve much with it.

3. Defnitely possible and one of the best potential uses of such a power, although here again it does require past symbiotic experience with all the relevant components and how they interact as a larger ecosystem, a research and experimentation that would likely be as fascinating and glorious as the end result eventually achieved, since it essentially amounts to playing god on a localized scale.