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[rraidergirl]

 [This is a video of the scattered mess of tiny robot parts she's made in one corner of the cargo bay.]

I managed to get a few of these things put together, but at this rate, it's going to take me another week.  I'm really not sure what I'm meant to do with a dozen or so robot vacuum cleaners to begin with.  I'm open to some suggestions.

[The feed switches to voice as Lara adds after a tentative pause. ]

I may have also received a video meant for someone else, something about Pax.

Comments

/Forever late to the party

[needsnoface]

Well we could always make them an early warning system and add little cameras and an alarm to them if you humans don't want to do patrols of the hallways and such.

[In other words make them useful so BB can hack them and control them like little swarming drones.]

sssh never late

[rraidergirl]

I didn't even know that hallway patrols were a thing... That might be a good idea, but I haven't a clue where we'd get cameras.

[needsnoface]

Well, not officially, but many of you seem quite willing to roam about and play peacekeeper when not roaming for other reasons.

[Some of the things you lot get up to when you should be asleep, just really now.]

We could requisition some or hope that whatever controls the 'mail delivery' likes us enough. Though we may wish to stay away from arming the little buggers. Wouldn't want anyone fearing a robotic uprising or anything.

[Or you know idiots tazing one another by remote controlling them somehow.]

[rraidergirl]

I don't know if they have the kind of programming to stage a revolution.

We were going to have them joust. [ Niko is a good influence. ]

[needsnoface]

Never underestimate the capacity of a human mind to believe anything if they think about it too much.

Well, that's better then arming them with a taser or such...[You humans and your blood sports.]

[rraidergirl]

If I thought about it too much, I would probably laugh and hurt their feelings.

[ Don't anthropomorphize the robot vacuums, Lara. ]

Arming them with tasers honestly hadn't crossed my mind. That sounds like a terrible idea.

[needsnoface]

That would be dreadful, poor things not even an hour old and already being picked on.

[It's okay Lara, it wouldn't be the first time such has happened. As long as you don't name them you can back away from being fond of vacuums.]


About the same level as automated turrets, but someone has thought of such.

[rraidergirl]

[ This time she does laugh. ]

Exactly, we can't have that.

[ She is endeavoring to be a responsible robot vacuum caretaker. ]

That... Yes, that does sound like a rather terrible idea. Wouldn't they just shoot everything that moved?

[needsnoface]

Some hopeful little waif had proposed a chip system in uniform collars or some such nonsense to tell friend from foe. Or having it recognize human from alien. It got nixed pretty quickly in the end.

Sometimes creativity doesn't realize logic still acts as a rule with some inventors.

[rraidergirl]

A bit like a more proactive dog tag, perhaps?

At the very least, one would hope logic prevails in weapons making, though historically I suppose that isn't always the case.

[needsnoface]

In theory, but such a small chip would be very easy to damage and lose in the midst of a battle, and then well it's 'fire at will' and a lot of preventable deaths.


If you had not deigned to tact that last part on I would have to worry about you as well. Most of your kind tend to try and lose their logic as soon as they realize what it is. Though, it does cause amusing things now and again.

[rraidergirl]

I have always been a bit of a skeptic.

[At least until recently... ]