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NICE SUGGESTIONS TO NOT FUCKING DIE
[Thanks for the name suggestion Arcade; SecUnit clearly didn't take to heart any of the other parts about not being able to tell people what to do.]
1. Never leave the Convoy [Convoy defined as the main trailers plus the radius of the shield and additional vehicles, approximately 80 meters] alone. Survey and scavenging groups should consist of at least 2 members.
2. When leaving the Convoy always inform someone outside of your party of your intended itinerary and duration of travel.
3. Perform regular check-ins during the excursion [ideally every 15 minutes] via the radio.
4. Bring a method of defense that you have training and certification in. This should be used as a LAST RESORT, if unable to avoid aggressive wildlife. Call for backup before engaging.
5. In an emergency situation safety of survey personnel is priority one. Abandon all equipment if necessary. Yes, even if that means the aggressive fauna will destroy it. Or eat it.
6. Never operate a vehicle or weapon while any of the following: Intoxicated, sleep-deprived, distracted, experiencing physical illnesses such as migraines, gastrointestinal symptoms, blood loss, etc.
7. Do not consume or touch unfamiliar plants or other food items without first confirming their safety for human ingestion. Licking counts as consuming.
8. Don't startle your SecUnit.
[Thanks for the name suggestion Arcade; SecUnit clearly didn't take to heart any of the other parts about not being able to tell people what to do.]
1. Never leave the Convoy [Convoy defined as the main trailers plus the radius of the shield and additional vehicles, approximately 80 meters] alone. Survey and scavenging groups should consist of at least 2 members.
2. When leaving the Convoy always inform someone outside of your party of your intended itinerary and duration of travel.
3. Perform regular check-ins during the excursion [ideally every 15 minutes] via the radio.
4. Bring a method of defense that you have training and certification in. This should be used as a LAST RESORT, if unable to avoid aggressive wildlife. Call for backup before engaging.
5. In an emergency situation safety of survey personnel is priority one. Abandon all equipment if necessary. Yes, even if that means the aggressive fauna will destroy it. Or eat it.
6. Never operate a vehicle or weapon while any of the following: Intoxicated, sleep-deprived, distracted, experiencing physical illnesses such as migraines, gastrointestinal symptoms, blood loss, etc.
7. Do not consume or touch unfamiliar plants or other food items without first confirming their safety for human ingestion. Licking counts as consuming.
8. Don't startle your SecUnit.
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You mean constructs just - make other constructs? You can do that?
[It knows how much tech is in V's body, how they reacted to a brand - all those parts had previously led it to think of them as some strange form of construct. But being in charge of anything doesn't seem like the kind of task any construct would be allowed to do. A bot, maybe. So it had assumed again.
Not going to do that again, if only because it's having a hard time coming to grips with this. A society of constructs sounds like a really shitty CR joke.]
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It is how it works, where I am from. The populations - human, modified, and Synth - are mixed; we all technically originated from those humans that survived the Calamity.
[They sigh.]
That doesn't stop colonialist forces from seizing power - they just have less resources of the wider world to call upon than they once did.
[
The CR would probably be really afraid of corporations having ceased to exist.no subject
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.]
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[They were all in the same boat, as far as people in Tamaris reckoned it.]
... What drives the making of- of SecUnits, or similar, where you're from?
[V gets the feeling they won't like the answer, but it feels kind of weird being the one being asked questions. Still, they might be crossing a line, and so:]
You- don't have to answer that. I apologize.
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It feels on the precipice of - something. Maybe it's a wave of I-don't-care. Maybe if it spends much more time thinking about this it's going to smash something.]
It's not like that. [Actually, time to keep asking V questions. Anything to not be talking about this any more.] What cataclysm.
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[Because V does record what they post to the Network.]
It is why I can't be sure humanity made it to space, from the Earth I know.
[Or, if they did, they never came back.]
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[Of course it's going to take more detail. It just might have to process it later because it's trying not to get into some kind of shitty feedback loop in its non-organic parts about Synth societies.
It doesn't change anything, anyway. Just because V exists doesn't mean the Corporation Rim doesn't. It doesn't change Preservation.
It doesn't change this place, where it's reasonably certain that they're the only two in quite this situation. Serph doesn't count, he wants to be human. Is human? It doesn't know what the fuck is going on there.]
Fine. So no space travel experience. But survivalism and resource management.
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And while V sends that along, they respond to SecUnit's next statement.]
Yes. Dealing with people is - not more difficult, as such. But it has a much less positive history for me than reverse-engineering old tech.
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No combat experience?
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While I- understand what the soldiers were trained in, how to operate their weapons, the Empire- didn't want all of their workers to be able to fight back.
[The Red Empire was not interested in all its 'acquired assets', human or otherwise, being fully independent.]
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On the other hand: The CR definitely doesn't want its disposable labor being able to fight back, either. It's a common theme in some of the more fantastical shows it watches, set in a fictional section of space or a fictional pre-CR planet, a controlling Empire and the brave humans who fight against it.]
And they marked you.
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[V shakes their head.]
I saw it happen to others - people I had met before, and strangers. I never saw my family again one way or the other, though. But the process itself, and the pain - even the possibility of inflicting the brands myself - that was something the Empire held over me.
[They looked down, remembered shame pressing on them.]
So that my 'superiors' could always make things worse. Keep me complicit.
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Whatever. It's not like being a brain-zapped governor-moduled SecUnit is fun. It's a good threat for compliance. ]
And after that?
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I couldn't keep getting on with it all. It wasn't so much any new horror being introduced, as just... cumulative weight. Like a fracture giving way to a complete shift.
I ran, and found M-Bot on the way. It was somewhat damaged, but I was able to help it, and we were better able to escape together than alone.
[They sigh.]
We were far from the only ones to escape the Empire, let alone the first. A band of mercenaries acted as our escorts for part of the journey.
[Unwillingly, they pause, then push through.]
M-Bot flew away at one point. I followed, and... by the time we turned back, everyone else on that team had been slaughtered. The Empire thought they had gotten everyone of that group.
[Which meant the only thing left to do was to run more.]
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So it gets that.
And it gets the horror that sentiment evokes, too.]
... There was a mining corporation that kept indentured wage slaves on a colony - they had started to smuggle people out, but the Corporation tried to kidnap them back. They're like that.
[Which sounds kind of callous, so it attempts adding,]
It sucks.
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[Though words often didn't feel like enough to express such... evil, that people did.]
... They can't follow us here, though. I had found more people to stand up against the Empire with, there, as well as make our own lives, but can't contact them here either.
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[Though, SecUnit has a vivid memory of a particular speech... Corporates, or V's Empire, can still do a lot of damage just from people giving them the benefit of the doubt. To what end... Humans have all sorts of motivations.
It'll have to keep being careful.]
... You trying to keep it secret?
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[They consider SecUnit's words, trying to weigh the consequences either way.]
It won't specifically hurt me, to have others know. To make it a conversation I can initiate. But it is... emotionally... still a lot to explain.
[SecUnit is free to imagine an undertone of 'ugh, emotions', even though that's not quite how V feels about the matter.]
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... Maybe it should be starting to make contingency plans. It's had to do that for Corporate spies, but it hadn't considered the need to disappear someone.]
Yeah. Explaining is shit.
[And that's even just with those who might get it.]
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I recall there being significantly more people around the Convoy when we first arrived. Not everyone continued the journey.
[So there is some degree of 'people just disappear' going on, dark as the implication may be.]
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They're probably dead by now.
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Until they get to see a Husk turn back into a person INSTEAD of a monster, V's going to have to take that at face value.]A plan we can work on in the meantime is writing up prep-files. Rehearsing, before we actually do have to explain to everyone at large, or just more people.
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Like an annoucement?
[It sounds like that's the last thing it would ever want.]
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There's no even moderately favorable option, here. And not choosing is a choice.
[Albeit still with its hazards.]
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[It's entirely fine with not spelling out exactly what it is and what that means. People will assume things already based off of what it posted for Rule 8 - it's not going to include a legal packet of what it means to be a SecUnit and why exactly everyone here should be afraid of it according to various sources.]