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With those choices given to him the Skitarii Alpha did not need a moment’s thought, “Serfs, clear the gun.”
The unaugmented humans looked at him in pure horror. It was like the command was something of a devoted death sentence to their miserable existence. Thus the issue was obvious, that the emotions of the people were getting in the way of winning this battle.
XKY’s logic processor began to figure out what was the problem, “I invoke the authority of Dominus L3ST3R for summary execution. Failure to comply with my commands shall result in the exercising of that authority.”
That there was enough to make the unaugmented start to run back towards the gun. Unlike the Skitarii, these humans still held great value in their life. Upon that thought his matrix gave him a new command, “Reminder, your bodies are property of the Machine God and Consciousness was made by him. Upon your death you shall be returned to him to be reforged into the next consciousness. Serve him well so that you will temper yourselves for the future.”
Such words did not seem to speed up the humans. Previous evidence showed that such an explanation would raise productivity by 15% which meant these people simply held the Machine God in no value. While he was thankful for all who came from Helmnet these dregs were more annoying than anything else.
He watched as the humans took a series of tools and began cleaning the gun of all the corpses that were littered within it. There was a slight temptation to simply ignite the corpses with Radiation but XKY was quickly notified that it could endanger the sanctity of the gun.
Since their aim was to arm the gun again he sent three of his lessers to assist in the rearming of the gun as the rest of his cohort took positions around the gun. XKY would not allow the Orks a chance to invade their workspace until they have fired the requisite amount of armaments.
With the number of Skitarii lowered they did not need as many pieces of defenses they had. Thus XKY sent out a voiceless command to arrange some defenses so that the Orks would foolishly run up and start to employ them as proper pieces of cover.
For themselves they still employed the standard amount of cover. It was more of a spartan formation but XKY knew that they would be overrun. Their fate was something that could not be changed no matter what they did.
They would fight to the end doing what they were told to do. Fire this artillery gun.
