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• Post #4453545

  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.

• Post #4375336

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

• Post #4367366

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

• Post #4345656

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

• Post #4269588

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

• Post #4268650

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

• Post #4185451

  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.

• Post #4185450

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

• Post #4185449

  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.

• Post #4185448

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

• Post #4185447

  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

• Post #4185446

  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.

• Post #4185445

  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.

• Post #4185444

  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.

• Post #4185443

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

• Post #4185442

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

• Post #4185441

  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.)

• Post #4185440

  “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.”

• Post #4185439

  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.

• Post #4185438

  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.

• Post #4185437

  “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.”

• Post #4185436

  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.

• Post #4185435

  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.

• Post #4087683

  (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.)

• Post #4076830

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

• Post #4069815

  It was a low-stress group, they didn’t argue much or antagonize each other for fun, and were fairly restful to be around, as long as they didn’t try to talk or interact with me in any way.

• Post #4036259

  Stupid humans. Sure, I’d had an emotional breakdown with the whole evisceration thing, but I was fine now, despite the drop in performance reliability. Absolutely fine.

• Post #4025906

  They didn’t give us an education module on human evolution, but I had looked it up in the HubSystem knowledge bases I’d had access to, in an effort to figure out what the hell was going on with humans. It hadn’t helped.

• Post #3967252

  But to make an ID I thought I only needed to see one thing. I told it, clothing. Acknowledge, the bot said. It pulled its arms in and led the way toward the target corridor.

• Post #3957709

  98 percent of my attention was on the episode I was watching: The colony solicitor’s bodyguard and best friend had just been crushed under debris while trying to save a transport mech trapped in a crash. Were they really going to kill her off? That sucked.