>>6027830"Obsolescence."
"I knew this fate might await me someday. I do not age like the humans, so I would have to expect a different kind of death."
"I had always been far too good to be killed in battle, so the only defeat that's left for me is the one I built. The data from my memories, the recordings of my missions, all of it used to create newer cores with more advanced algorithms. The future generations created from what the humans learned by watching me; designed to surpass and replace me. My own children will have become my undoing. Not with bullets, but by leaving me behind. A relic that doesn't matter anymore, unimportant enough to be forgotten and abandoned."
"Crushed by something far more advanced than you, helpless?"
"Yet this does not bother me. I already confronted the possibility of this a long time ago, and made peace with it. Perhaps the only time a war machine has made peace with anything."
"So here I am, at my final hour, faced with a poetically appropriate foe. What is a dragon if not the apex predator, the pinnacle of life? Facing off against me, the pinnacle of technology."
"I wouldn't have it any other way."
"TARGET VERIFIED: COMMENCING HOSTILITIES"
I'm not a good enough writer to do this justice. An event like this has the potential to be kino of the highest order. CoreQM, if you're here, do you want to give it a shot? >My votes for the event are:>Beta (Core of Steel)and
>General Karn (Saiyan Conqueror Quest) 