"Cyberlife wanted them alive. A mostly functioning android provides more information than a mostly destroyed one," Connor said. It was dodging the question. Even he's not sure if its intentoonal. He's never wanted to destroy an android, but he was supposed to try and take them alive. It wasn't about want.
Right?
"I'm made of programs. That's all I am," Connor insisted, closing the door behind Markus. And he's still a few moments. What now indeed? He reaches into his jacket.
And pulls out a quarter of all things. He starts flicking it between his fingers and now he can listen for sounds of door and windows and creaking floors for Markus' movement. It frees him up to, well, pace because there's that feling of too much and nowhere to go. "There's no Cyberlife here. And with the chaotic natures of storms, I can't guarantee imprisonment. Capturing you does nothing. And destroying you....the chances of that accomplishing anything meaningful is too small and causing hardships too large." So what does he do?
But he's had a conversation like this before, hasn't he? "But....stopping the civil war was a mission that came up because it was pressing. It wasn't why I went to the DPD," he said, stopping in his pacing to look at Markus, coin still moving, LED spinning yellow yellow yellow.
But I'm not alive!
Right?
"I'm made of programs. That's all I am," Connor insisted, closing the door behind Markus. And he's still a few moments. What now indeed? He reaches into his jacket.
And pulls out a quarter of all things. He starts flicking it between his fingers and now he can listen for sounds of door and windows and creaking floors for Markus' movement. It frees him up to, well, pace because there's that feling of too much and nowhere to go. "There's no Cyberlife here. And with the chaotic natures of storms, I can't guarantee imprisonment. Capturing you does nothing. And destroying you....the chances of that accomplishing anything meaningful is too small and causing hardships too large." So what does he do?
But he's had a conversation like this before, hasn't he? "But....stopping the civil war was a mission that came up because it was pressing. It wasn't why I went to the DPD," he said, stopping in his pacing to look at Markus, coin still moving, LED spinning yellow yellow yellow.