As Geron said, it honestly isn’t a very nice thing for Soames to do.
But, by that point of his tale he has been exiled and hunted.
Frankly, he’s tired of that sort of game and decides to switch it up a bit.
The Carnivore story short occurs during the rabbitoid assault on Ceres station, Soames is now one hundred and thirty years old or thereabouts.
He still looks just as he did the day he was reformatted by the nanites after the lab accident.
And he has since learned how to utilize their abilities.
The Council character who is the protag of the Carnivore short gets his first impression of Soames by watching him perform seeming wizardry, Soames motions with a hand, and something happens.
In the case of initial contact, he sees Soames pick someone off the floor and toss them via hand gesture.
What Soames is actually doing involves subverting the artificial gravity systems and manipulating n-space to propel items and nasty bits of annoyance “that away”.
If you ever complete the story you should throw it on Amazon, although a cover showing a Rabbitoid assault might be hard to make. lol
I see nanotechnology and genetic manipulation as being not only in the future for mankind, but being essential to it.
Our quest for more and more powerful medicines, for example, are merely an effort to find a better fit for fixing what tends to go wrong inside us. One of the more potent ways of dealing with that is not a powerful medicine, but a way of activating what our healthy and normal bodies would do if the problem issues did not arise.
Essentially, it is a way to correct the various steps that our internal mechanisms take to fabricate the chemicals and hormones that control them, and the manner in which those recipes get battered, stained, and illegible.
So we will be “making” our own medicines internally, from our own basic ingredients obtained from regular food.
This also will be the method of fixing errors and minor instructional typos we may have been born with.
And of course, we will not stop there. Being healthy for your whole life is a fine thing, (and yes I am very thankful about that, thank-you-very-much), but specifically where is it written exactly how long that life should be?
That’s a rhetorical question. The place that it is written is the same place that those typos have been noted to appear, our own genetic deck of cards which we were dealt.
The end goal of medicine and health care should be to develop and sustain your body, and everyone’s body, until accident or calamitous fate should intervene, as earthquakes and other events are not health issues, but simply hazards to be avoided or experienced, and survived if possible.
The possible, and perhaps best, future for humanity is one of good health for a very long time, and the major problem we will face in that future is how to choose how many people we will share it with.