Chapter 42 - The Ironman Nanosuit (Patreon)

In that one scene where he first deployed the suit, the nano-armor just spreads out to completely encase his body from the area of his arc reactor by his heart. Where were all those nanites coming from?! Were they self-replicating on the fly? His suit was completely deployed in probably less than a second, forming directly over his real clothes almost like nanotechnology 3d printing. Is it building itself on the fly every time? Or does he have some kind of spatial storage technology? When he dismisses the suit, what happens to all that nano-printed material? Does it self-destruct? Does it get sucked into some kind of storage or some kind of compacted state? He had his AI helping to run his armor, would my VI be able to do the same? Would it be needed to do the same?