... For your information, I was born this way. Synth are born as much as made, by other Synth and not organics. Modifieds are humans who alter their own gene expression, develop different organs and structures - perhaps that is closer to what you mean.

[They look out into the field, not directly at SecUnit.]

We still have computers, drones like M-Bot - the Red Empire builds them, among other governing bodies, but doesn't appreciate what they have. Only conquest is the point, to them.

[But they can't just leave it at that. M-Bot hovers in-between the two constructs, not quite sure how to react.]

There are AI - beings that actually go by that term - on Tamaris - but they were built long ago, and only a few survived to the present. I learn what I can, and others try as well, but the means and materials used to maintain their housing, allow them to take care of themselves, were lost in the same Cataclysm that reshaped our planet, and over the centuries since.

[Maybe their experience is too different, and V can't relate - but they would rather offer a confusing truth than a lie.]