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[indoctrinated]

[ the feed flickers once, twice, before it settles on Thisavrou's latest Turian resident. ]

I have heard of machine-gods that could harvest entire civilizations and render them into nothingness in nanoseconds, or even create a symbiotic relationship between machines and organics...but I have never heard of the likes of machinery that could resuscitate the dead.

Yet, I am led to believe the technology here is so highly advanced that it is as common as any other glitch in a program. Is that right?

[ here, Saren pauses, clearly disbelieving. ]

I seek more credible answers, which surely someone must have uncovered by now. Is there more to how we arrived here? What is known about our gracious hosts, is there information regarding them or their government?

Humans are known for their arrogance and non-compliance. I cannot imagine that all of you have been content to act as no better than cogs in a machine, submitting so that our gracious hosts could reap the benefits of your contribution.

Comments

[indoctrinated]

And yet they have nothing to show for it. I suppose I shouldn't have expected much less.

Do you have any sort of relevant info, then, or are you simply eager to share your disdain for humans?

[inconsequence]

That depends entirely on what sort information you deem relevant.

[indoctrinated]

Anything regarding our hosts, how they operate, what they expect from us. Who do they answer to? Surely there's some figure of authority.

Or about the native life here. I doubt it is entirely just humans that populate this galaxy...? It would be unfortunate if that were the case.

[inconsequence]

All very nebulous. There are most assuredly other species in the vicinity, though they seldom prove they are any better.

[indoctrinated]

And are you one of the other species? Or just a human who happens to acknowledge the failings of their kind.

[inconsequence]

Accounts seem to vary. No one can quite say for certain what it is I am!

[indoctrinated]

That implies you belong to no species or don't identify with one.

Are you some sort of artificial intelligence that gained sentience, then? It would not be the first time that's happened.

[inconsequence]

I suppose the former would be most accurate. Dead things are not allowed a species and descriptor, are they?

[indoctrinated]

That would be unfortunate. I still consider myself as a species of my own race.

[You know, despite the cybernetics and all.]

[inconsequence]

An anomaly. How unique.

[indoctrinated]

Which part is the anomaly?

[inconsequence]

The part where you're evidently your own species. That would be something of a rarity, would it not?