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“Now hear this: the receiver-transmitter on this subassembly is only intended to be used in emergencies only to give the assembly commands. Now hear this: this assembly automatically reports any interruption of autonomous function to the ranking officer on the bridge and to Engineering. Now hear this: write protection and coffle-breaking protocols are in effect – attempts to reprogram or otherwise slave the drone will be reported to the ranking officer on the bridge, Engineering and to the Quartermaster. Now hear this: if this assembly becomes aware of an attempt to reprogram or slave it, and it is not able to communicate this attack to the bridge, then it is authorized to defend itself with the means available to itself, within the parameters of its mission.”
Jesus Christ, it is a good thing that you were only trying to give it commands, otherwise you would have turned this thing hostile. Still, you aren’t done with it yet; it hasn’t accepted your command and reeled in the lures. That can only mean that you need to name the whole unit, not just Creep-Softly, the subunit with the receiver-transmitter. Well … you now know that the whole thing is not named Creep-Softly … or Stalk-Softly, for that matter. That is more than you had to work with a minute ago. There is the million-talent question of how many more attempts you have to name the drone before it considers it an attack, but you suppose you could hazard one or two without –
“Now hear this: while this subassembly is configured to convey commands to the assembly, it nor any of the other subassemblies of Tread-Softly are able to accept independent commands.”
Or the drone could simply tell you its name. Yeah, that works too - though how the Hell does Tread-Softly have anything to do with fucking plants and leaves? ... Anyway, now the only question is what to do with the drone. You could tell the thing to go to standby mode, but then there is the question of will it take itself out of standby mode after a certain amount of time, or is there something that you could do that would pull the drone out of standby … like say, using your torch or your boosters? The other option is to shut the drone down – but then that raises the question of how to turn the thing back on. Once you are done here, you want the drone working again, killing worms, so this hulk doesn’t get any worse. To that end, there is an <span class="mu-i">other</span> other option. Try to harvest conduit without shutting the drone off. Sure, the drone is here to protect the wiring, so that conduit might not be safe to pull at the moment, but the pipes for the desalinator also qualify as conduit, and you don’t think that drone would be too concerned about those.
> Please choose ONE of the following:
> Shut Tread-Softly off.
> Put Tread-Softly on standby.
> Leave Tread-Softly running.
> Please choose ONE of the following:
> Take a closer look at Tread-Softly
> Find the desalinator and start pulling conduit
