[With Knock Out's projection it's something about the eyes-and-sunglasses thing that gives him away most, though through stalk eyes there's something a little bit off about his whole form.]

<No. I think it's some kind of technology. The 'soup' doesn't need to be carbon-based, either. Something just needs to have DNA or a close equivalent, and once I've taken a copy I can morph that shape.>

[But not plants, he remembers. Not normal plants. Maybe nothing sessile and without a nervous system? It would be nice if he could remember more about the details.]

<I take it that you are inorganic yourself, then?>