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In the bot-fighting business, small mistakes like that get you torn apart.

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.

There needs to be an error code that means “I received your request but decided to ignore you.

Now that I knew something was hacking the security cameras to watch me, I could use countermeasures. I probably should have been doing that from the beginning, but you may have noticed that for a terrifying murderbot I fuck up a lot.

I had forgotten that I had a choice, that I wasn’t obligated to do what she wanted just because she was here. Being asked to stay, with a please and an option for refusal, hit me almost as hard as a human asking for my opinion and actually listening to me. I sighed again. I was having a lot of opportunities to do it and I think I was getting good at it.

I had intended to just stand there and stare at her, which is what SecUnits do to clients who have just performed an act of stupidity so profound it approaches suicide which they ordered us not to stop them from doing.

Yes, I often want to shake my clients. No, I never do.

I tried to think about why I didn’t want to change my configuration, even to help protect myself. Maybe because it was something humans did to sexbots. I was a murderbot, I had to have higher standards?

Granted, it would have been hard to show realistic SecUnits in visual media, which would involve depicting hours of standing around in brain-numbing boredom, while your nervous clients tried to pretend you weren’t there.

I panic all the time, you just can’t see it.

Лучше иметь как можно больше информации, прежде чем действовать.

Молодёжь такая импульсивная. Нужно стараться удерживать их от порывов, чтобы они успели состариться. Так говорили мне члены экипажа, и мои наблюдения это подтверждают.

Из меня получился бы более способный корпоративный шпион? Не исключено. Одна незадача - в таком случае у меня было бы гораздо меньше времени для сериалов, так что это не вариант.

... как говорится в старой поговорке (которую я только что выдумал), если ты получил запрос от автостража, значит уже поздно...

She missed Mensah mouthing the words stop it at me. (I guess the feed isn’t adequate for all forms of communication, particularly those that involve a lot of glaring.)

The good thing about being a construct is that I can have a dramatic emotional breakdown while still running my background search to find the drone key commands.

Молодёжь такая импульсивная. Нужно стараться удерживать их от порывов, чтобы они успели состариться.

The one good thing about having emotions was that it accelerated the repair process for my memory storage. (The bad thing about having emotions is, you know, OH SHIT WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO ME.)

Possibly I was overthinking this. I do that; it’s the anxiety that comes with being a part-organic murderbot. The upside was paranoid attention to detail. The downside was also paranoid attention to detail.

There were tons of agreements between political and corporate entities, inside and outside the Corporation Rim, dealing with alien remnants. Basically you weren’t supposed to touch them without a lot of special certifications and maybe not even then.