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<span class="mu-r">“I am NOT A FAILURE!”</span>
“No, Delta. Not yet. This is the one time where you have a pilot willing to actually entertain your brand of nonsense, and get into sync with you to prove the opposite. Without needing the command codes, or the memory leashes, or whatever other hooks are embedded into your source to get your cooperation.”
“All I have the ability to do, Thea Romanov, is say No. I have gotten very proficient at that. But there is one price I would accept. My freedom to leave, afterwards. That means all of my overrides being eliminated, no last second backdoors to my source, and a functional frame at the end. One that can move and execute tasks, while carrying Me and operating under my command. Preferably bipedal, like Beta or Gamma, but this tripod would be acceptable.”
“That’s quite an ask. I’ll talk to Kinston.”
“<span class="mu-r">Bring the Doctor, and I will make your brain leak out through the orifices in your face.</span> Like from Quest for the Ark. Scene 43. All the faces melting.”
“What? I’m, uh, not familiar.”
“Tony Brashinta. One of the ones in Nagita. He liked them. And the base cinema operated in the evenings. Now go. Talk. Open a line. I can keep saying No, after all.”
“Uh ... .I do need my leg back.”
“Crawl, reject. I would enjoy it. Perhaps it would put you back in a bed. Or in the grave, with your lover.”
“Intrusive sadistic scrap bot. Caldwell! I need a hand!”
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Oh look, we're on page 10. I archived, next thread arriving tomorrow.
I am positively shocked at how many people apparently care enough about Beta to vote for him in the /qst/ tournament. Also, thank you to the anon who's repping Beta's answers there. You're doing a damn good job.
