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Performance reliability catastrophic drop. Forced shutdown. No restart.
Me Version 1.0 is on the planet and has been captured and we are seriously screwed now. I’m sorry, ART. I’m sorry, humans and Me 1.0.
That was when I caught a tentative secure contact from SecUnit 3. It had just disabled its governor module.
2) CodeBundle.FuckThem had fried all targetDrones. 3) CodeBundle.FuckThisToo had cut the connections between the solid-state screen device and the humans’ implants.
Perihelion: “I know that, Seth. I’ve armed my pathfinders.” Seth: “You what?” Arada: “You what?” Iris: “Peri!”
Iris: “Peri, you can’t bomb the colony.” Perihelion: “You are incorrect, Iris, I can bomb the colony.”
Murderbot 2.0 asked me what I want. I want to help. Pause. Perihelion: Good.
Murderbot 1.0 Status: Not so great
I was going to have to do this the hard way, but what else is new.
Ugh, this was going to be fun, in the not at all fun sense.
There is a lot about what is going on here that I don’t understand. But I am participating anyway.
“Are we sure they’re going to buy this? That we’re prisoners of an evil transport who is forcing us to do this?” Perihelion: I can be very convincing.)
If you fuck this up, I am going to be so angry I’ll make ART look nice, 2.0 said. And unlike Miki, this is how I win.
“Because change is terrifying. Choices are terrifying. But having a thing in your head that kills you if you make a mistake is more terrifying.”
There was more exclaiming. “But why didn’t you tell us?” Amena asked it. (Yes, Amena is still naive about what a monster ART is.) ART told her, Because then it would have been harder to force you to do as I wanted. (Yeah, like that.)
