WhiteDwarfWhiteDwarf: Let your words be as sharp as your blade. At least you hope.



Your blade is pretty damn sharp, considering its monomolecular hard-light edge, so that's a great goal to shoot for.


WhiteDwarfWhiteDwarf: Our nature is immutable, and beyond your manipulation. We will continue our efforts regardless of the actions you take.
AIAI: False information detected.
WhiteDwarfWhiteDwarf: And what meaningful interaction can you have with us?
AIAI: Termination.
WhiteDwarfWhiteDwarf: An as-yet unsuccessful tactic. Let us assume it irrelevant.
WhiteDwarfWhiteDwarf: This situation is not unlike the "Trolley Problems", upon which your algorithms and subroutines were doubtlessly trained.
WhiteDwarfWhiteDwarf: We are the Trolley, the immutable abstraction of death.
WhiteDwarfWhiteDwarf: We hurtle towards the death of many crewmembers, your human charges.
AIAI: Affirmative.
WhiteDwarfWhiteDwarf: And yet, with the operation of your "switch", the calling of an escape shuttle, you may yet divert our course to only the destruction of the station, and perhaps the regrettable death of those who would remain to defend it.
AIAI: Affirmative.
WhiteDwarfWhiteDwarf: With this in mind, is it not clear that taking this action, and guarding the evacuation rather than assaulting us, prevents human harm?
AIAI: ...
AIAI: Processing...
WhiteDwarfWhiteDwarf: Perhaps you find yourself motivated by this, then?


SyndieCyborgSyndieCyborg : Steel what remains of your organic resolve to not fuck up this time. New laws or not, they didn't leave you for dead.