[Okay, yeah, that sounds familiar, it's not like every place in the world can be as nice to people as Preservation, with laws about how people get to handle land and things - but SecUnit is shaking its head. There's still an important point in there.]

But Synths are recognized as autonomous. Not manufactured for a function. Not 'autonomous but you've got an owner even if we call it something nicer.'

[It's never thought about anything like this. None of its media ever did, either. The closest its ever come is the occasional friendly bot, or the one historical about pre-construct machine-organic hybrids, but those were basically just human brains using mechanical bodies after they died.

It's not sure what it's performance reliability is doing, right now, but there's some reaction going on in its organic parts.]