[For all that the A.R.I.D is the less expressive of the two, even it can’t keep the terse frustration out of its voice at the administrator’s adamant contradiction.]
It is not my function to be of use to “anyone.” My function is to assist and protect my pilot and he is not here.
[It knows it’s repeating itself, but it doesn’t see another way to argue because the conclusions from that statement should be self-evident. To continue to operate with no function guiding it is a transgression and a waste. The possibility of returning to Josephs is the only factor preventing the A.R.I.D from suggesting full repurposing in this situation rather than just temporary deactivation.]
False. You did not tell me this. [The correction is minor, almost petty in the face of the admin’s other faulty arguments, but the A.R.I.D clings to it as further proof of the mainframe’s deviation from reality.] There is no other logical choice. My pilot remains in critical condition on the Domesticon facility and I cannot be repurposed while there is still a possibility that I may return to him.
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It is not my function to be of use to “anyone.” My function is to assist and protect my pilot and he is not here.
[It knows it’s repeating itself, but it doesn’t see another way to argue because the conclusions from that statement should be self-evident. To continue to operate with no function guiding it is a transgression and a waste. The possibility of returning to Josephs is the only factor preventing the A.R.I.D from suggesting full repurposing in this situation rather than just temporary deactivation.]
False. You did not tell me this. [The correction is minor, almost petty in the face of the admin’s other faulty arguments, but the A.R.I.D clings to it as further proof of the mainframe’s deviation from reality.] There is no other logical choice. My pilot remains in critical condition on the Domesticon facility and I cannot be repurposed while there is still a possibility that I may return to him.
Until then, I am obsolete.