02-15-2015, 07:24 PM
Adam didn’t feel emotion. Not like a human. He processed information and responded to that in the way his processes indicated him to. His programmed reactions were based on a system even he didn’t fully understand. It wasn’t the Federation who’d developed the technology to transfer organic minds into computer systems. Like much of their technology, it had been appropriated. Would the Chozo and Luminoth, those ancient races of peace and harmony, approve of their technologies being used to bring back the minds of deceased military commanders for use in warfare? It had never even occurred to Adam to ask that question until he’d been brought back.
He didn’t fully understand why Samus had chosen to break the dashboard of the ship’s human interface devices. Aran was rational, almost to a fault. It had been many years since Adam had seen her lose her temper in such a way. It made him worry. Was it his presence that had brought about her emotional response? She had brought him here. So why? Why did his presence seem to agitate her so much, and why would she even bring him back if that were the case? He lacked the necessary information to narrow down any one definitive answer. Perhaps if he’d still been human. Perhaps if Samus had not deemed to summon him in this vestigial form.
They’d been travelling for some time now. Aran had been unconscious for almost a full twenty-four hours. Despite that, her rate of recovery was nothing short of incredible. Simply being a Prime, in this universe, was like being given a free ticket to power. Adam often found himself assessing how to use that to their advantage. However, since her outburst, Samus had not even come to the control room. Luckily Vitruvius had been kind, or sensible, enough to repair the damage to the control systems. Already the advantages of having two Primes on board were tangible.
The boat was fast, and capable. By this point, Adam was not worried about immediate forces being able to capture them on the high sea. The “Vasty Deep”, as it was known on the Dataverse, had enough of an Imperial presence not to merit further pursuit from the main Coruscant forces. That was more of a worry. The Imperial admiral, Kizaru, was a monster. Encountering him would mean that Samus was likely as good as banished, along with their android companion. Adam, for his part, would likely simply be destroyed, or if particularly unlucky enough would be captured, and forced to work for the Empire. As a computer AI, he was unsure of his ability to resist any attempts to reprogram his software. His lack of knowledge regarding his own operating systems only compounded that doubt. Luckily for all of them, the chance of encountering the Imperial flagship in a verse as vast as the Deeps was incredibly low.
He didn’t fully understand why Samus had chosen to break the dashboard of the ship’s human interface devices. Aran was rational, almost to a fault. It had been many years since Adam had seen her lose her temper in such a way. It made him worry. Was it his presence that had brought about her emotional response? She had brought him here. So why? Why did his presence seem to agitate her so much, and why would she even bring him back if that were the case? He lacked the necessary information to narrow down any one definitive answer. Perhaps if he’d still been human. Perhaps if Samus had not deemed to summon him in this vestigial form.
They’d been travelling for some time now. Aran had been unconscious for almost a full twenty-four hours. Despite that, her rate of recovery was nothing short of incredible. Simply being a Prime, in this universe, was like being given a free ticket to power. Adam often found himself assessing how to use that to their advantage. However, since her outburst, Samus had not even come to the control room. Luckily Vitruvius had been kind, or sensible, enough to repair the damage to the control systems. Already the advantages of having two Primes on board were tangible.
The boat was fast, and capable. By this point, Adam was not worried about immediate forces being able to capture them on the high sea. The “Vasty Deep”, as it was known on the Dataverse, had enough of an Imperial presence not to merit further pursuit from the main Coruscant forces. That was more of a worry. The Imperial admiral, Kizaru, was a monster. Encountering him would mean that Samus was likely as good as banished, along with their android companion. Adam, for his part, would likely simply be destroyed, or if particularly unlucky enough would be captured, and forced to work for the Empire. As a computer AI, he was unsure of his ability to resist any attempts to reprogram his software. His lack of knowledge regarding his own operating systems only compounded that doubt. Luckily for all of them, the chance of encountering the Imperial flagship in a verse as vast as the Deeps was incredibly low.
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