[ They can both give each other a little leeway with that, maybe, and Danse probably needs more of it, because he's been equally misleading in describing his own very-much-not-inert neural hardware in the same terms when it's not exactly the same thing. He doesn't know, though, what a governor module actually does when it isn't neutralized--and he's never had it accurately explained to him what a synth component does either, leaving him with little besides a few chilling certainties, a bit of stolen out-of-context data, and a lot of paranoid, exaggerated propaganda from the people who want to wipe out anyone who has one.

This is what immediately comes to mind as a response to that question, though he knows that can't be what SecUnit means, because he's never explained the Brotherhood of Steel to anyone here who wasn't already familiar. He shakes his head. ]

Barely. But not for the reasons I assume you're asking. Look, we're not from the same place and we obviously can't have been made by the same people, but...I imagine their motivations for doing it might have been similar enough. I just know what it's like to have a brain exploitable by any hostile who can work the hardware. By design, it doesn't take much.

The Institute didn't call it a "governor module," and maybe an on-the-spot factory reset doesn't count as governance, but I'd still rather it not be able to happen to me. I don't know what all they can do with yours.