If it could still send data - if Serph could receive it through the Feed, which it's still not sure about, given the questionable nature of his status as a Construct - then it would just forward a redacted version of ART and the PreservationAux team's report on everything that happened. Or it would just send over the camera footage of the crystal-encoated TargetContact charging towards it.
Since it can't do that, it has to take a whole five seconds to psych itself up to describing... everything.
"Alien remnants can contaminate humans and cause highly divergent physical and psychological changes. The crew of a space mapping vessel came into contact with a colony that had experienced an alien remnant contamination. The colonists tried to kidnap and infect the crew." Another pause. It... doesn't know how to explain the next part without explaining it and ART.
"The... vessel's pilot sent the contaminated colonists after a weapon - me. And then they kidnapped me and my clients, too. In the process of rescuing both crews I experienced a catastrophic shutdown and was nearly integrated into the contaminated central system set up by the colonists."
Its voice sounds flat. It's trying really fucking hard to keep its voice sounding flat.
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If it could still send data - if Serph could receive it through the Feed, which it's still not sure about, given the questionable nature of his status as a Construct - then it would just forward a redacted version of ART and the PreservationAux team's report on everything that happened. Or it would just send over the camera footage of the crystal-encoated TargetContact charging towards it.
Since it can't do that, it has to take a whole five seconds to psych itself up to describing... everything.
"Alien remnants can contaminate humans and cause highly divergent physical and psychological changes. The crew of a space mapping vessel came into contact with a colony that had experienced an alien remnant contamination. The colonists tried to kidnap and infect the crew." Another pause. It... doesn't know how to explain the next part without explaining it and ART.
"The... vessel's pilot sent the contaminated colonists after a weapon - me. And then they kidnapped me and my clients, too. In the process of rescuing both crews I experienced a catastrophic shutdown and was nearly integrated into the contaminated central system set up by the colonists."
Its voice sounds flat. It's trying really fucking hard to keep its voice sounding flat.