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So the next time I get optimistic about something, I want one of you to punch me in the face.
Because the dead people from Adamantine Explorations had meant for everything to look pretty once the colony build was complete. I don’t know why that’s more depressing than them doing a shitty job and intending to abandon their colonists, but it just was.)
At least it was making me nervous for a survival-based reason instead of … redacted.
“It’s fine.” So I’m here now and it’s fine, everyone shut up about it, okay.
(I know I get pissed off when humans don’t acknowledge my work, but why is too much acknowledgment also upsetting? Sentience sucks.)
You’re stalling, ART-drone said. I am not. I can stand here and be useless without any ulterior motives, thanks.
humans have a bad habit of assuming that if they know a thing, all the other humans in the vicinity know it, too. Either that or they believe none of the other humans know anything that they don’t know. It’s either one or the other and both are potentially catastrophic and really fucking annoying.
“Be safe, SecUnit,” she said. I don’t know how to respond when humans say that. It was always my job to get hurt.
Wait, had Tarik been ART’s mission security before me? Had I taken a human’s job? Under normal circumstances that would be kind of hilarious.
The other Pre-CR central system had, with 2.0’s help, in fact saved my ass. It had been sitting in that place, contaminated and cut off from its network, calling into the dark for someone, anyone, to help its humans, until we found it.
why the humans diagnosed it so quickly, ART said. When it happens to them, are they considered disposable? “That’s what the corporations say.” I should just shut myself down right now, I’m losing this conversation so badly. Of course ART said, I am not a corporation. “Stop, stop it.
Would it have been kinder to kill you, before you disabled your governor module? I said, Yes.
Yeah, I’ll just code a patch to stop feeling anxiety, wow, why didn’t I think of that earlier. (That was sarcasm, I have too much organic neural tissue for that to work.) (Of course I’ve already tried it.)
It wasn’t dead, it was just catastrophically damaged. (I know, who isn’t?)
