005 ⌥ TEXT; ANONYMOUS [god, i feel like i'm spamming]

[femshep]

If anyone's got a minute to spare, I was wondering if you'd tell me about wherever it is you come from.

The world or worlds, the level of technology, the political hierarchy, your culture and society and how it functions, etc.

[But a few minutes later, a second part is tacked on.]

Forget it. Forget all of that. Don't worry about getting technical.

Just tell me what it was like for you. Your ship or city. Your job. Your friends or family.

If it's not a problem.

Comments

[truth_is_cold]

More like as individuals suffering from program degradation. At that point, they're usually rebooted to get rid of whatever faulty programming is damaging them.

[femshep]

So they're too easily controlled to pose much of a threat, then.

[truth_is_cold]

No more easily controlled than any other person. They take the oath to serve the same as us. They can live as androids or as ships. If we break our oath, we are all dismissed.

[Which he's pretty sure is what happened to him.]

[femshep]

Assuming 'dismissed' means killed for humans, too?

[truth_is_cold]

It can be. It depends on the level of crime against the Commonwealth.

[He knows what he's probably in for.]

[femshep]

[A pause, long enough to be considered 'thoughtful' even over text.]

That makes sense.

[She means more about the treatment of AIs than the definition of 'dismissed', but she doesn't clarify.]