User blog comment:Xaero Dumort/"Synthetics" as applied to the ending and the sentence that nullifies IT./@comment-4237253-20120624070354/@comment-1341687-20120624070858

Like I said, Synthesis just has to be sort of accepted. It's a Trope. Stargate: Atlantis had biosynthetic ships with the Wraith, Moya of Farscape was biosynthetic, the Aliens and possibly Space Jockey tech all seem to biosynthetic. The Aliens are silicon based IIRC. Lexx is biosynthetic ship from the series of the same name. It's easier to think of how organics can become part synthetic than the opposite. We have iron, and other metals in our systems that can easily make up circuitry and more.