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  I did everything I could think of to do, then finally let myself go on standby while I caught up on my serials.

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  Maybe I had been watching too much media.

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  Oh good, maybe the security level would go from barely adequate to mostly adequate.

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  Right, so the only smart way out of this was to kill all of them. I was going to have to take the dumb way out of this.

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  I feel like panicking and I was not in control of this situation and I could see at least ten instances now where I’d made wrong decisions and being in control of the situation was really important because otherwise it was in control of me

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  There was some strange system where they all got their food and shelter and education and medical for free, no matter what job they did.

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  His face did the thing humans do when they’re trying not to show how annoyed they are. (Mission accomplished.)

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  You know, it’s not like I’m half-assing this, I am actually trying my best despite the fuck-ups.

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  Trying to get humans not to touch dangerous things was a full-time job.

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  How humans decide what to do with their arms on a second-by-second basis, I still have no idea.

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  It was a great idea to go if you wanted to be murdered.

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  I sent it a salutation and it sent back, query? It was asking me why I was here. I replied query: identify, and attached an image of the dead human.

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  I love it when humans forget that SecUnits are not just guarding and killing things voluntarily, because we think it’s fun.

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  I yelled, “No!” which I’m not supposed to do; I’m always supposed to speak respectfully to the clients, even when they’re about to accidentally commit suicide.

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  Transports don’t communicate in words (most transports don’t; ART did, but ART was ART)

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  One of ART’s long-sleeved crew T-shirts had fallen out of the recycler at one point. My first impulse was to throw it away, but I needed it, so I pulled it on over my head

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  The killing machine in question has just sent her yet another message packet. They’re piling up in her feed and if she would stop encouraging SecUnit by opening them, it would probably stop.

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  Ships from outside the Corporation Rim, particularly on the routes intersecting Preservation, had a variety of different protocols, some of them horrifyingly jury-rigged by humans.

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  Target Two’s gray face went surprised, then furious. It was kind of funny. This was a point where if I was a human (ick) I might have laughed.

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  I couldn’t do this without ART’s help.

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  Conflicting commands filled my feed but I didn’t pay attention.

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  Amena had jumped on his back and was trying to choke him out. (It was a good effort but she didn’t have the leverage to really clamp down with her forearm.)

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  “It’s not a baby, it’s a copy of me, made with code.” Amena folded her arms and looked intensely skeptical. “That you and ART made together, with code. Code which both of you are also made out of.”

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  I was trying to force an emergency open through the transport’s feed but the connections were inactive and it was like groping around in a giant bin of tiny broken drones for the one that was still intact.

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  The humans not being able to tell what I was doing just guaranteed that whatever they assumed I was doing would be way, way worse than me having a brief comm interaction with each transport in dock, trying to get info for stupid Station Security.

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  “I need my jacket.” ART said, It was damaged and is being repaired in the recycler. It was very hard to say evenly, “I am not speaking to you.”

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  My education modules were such cheap crap; most of the useful things I knew about security I learned from the edutainment programming on the entertainment feeds.

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  ART said, You are aboard the Perihelion, registered teaching and research vessel of the Pansystem University of Mihira and New Tideland. Then it added, I’m not going to hurt your humans, you little idiot.

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  (I don’t know anything about transport engines but I know you shouldn’t shoot at them, okay? They’re near the top of the long list of things it’s just obviously not a good idea to shoot at.)

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  Ignoring stuff is always an option, up until it kills you.