[ If Danse thought it was that bad an idea to let a stranger erase and reprogram his brain, he wouldn't have voluntarily let someone do it once before, but that's the beauty of a memory wipe--when it works, you don't remember it. In this case, though, the technique being suggested doesn't seem like an option, and he looks blank as he faintly shakes his head. ]
I don't think I've got the requisite tech.
[ He's not even sure what Feed access is. He listens to this explanation as he watches the scene in the water, but this time, he holds himself back from asking about it. It isn't from lack of curiosity, but Danse supposes that maybe this way he can make up for his earlier pushy disrespect, even if he wants to know--he'll take a purposeful description of how things work where SecUnit comes from, instead.
He'd have a viscerally negative reaction, recoiling a bit at the words, to the notion of the "Corporation Rim" even were he less fond of railing about the ways corporate greed destroyed his own smoldering ruined world. Now SecUnit is giving him reason to want to yell on behalf of other ones as well. He's proven simultaneously right and wrong about their creators' respective motivations for doing it, though SecUnit's explanation certainly tracks. ]
The ones like me are built for infiltration.
[ A dirty word, filled with self-loathing even if he wasn't one of the particular units designated for the job. For Danse, who values honesty and straightforwardness above almost anything else, who loathes any tactic he would call manipulation or subterfuge, it's the worst thing he thinks he could have been made for. ]
They'll use us for labor too, which I assume was my function, but that's why they designed this model to appear so humanlike. They'll kill and replace influential citizens, or sometimes just ordinary people, just to keep the population paranoid that anyone among them could be a synth. The point is to destabilize and sow discord.
There are other models, used as combat troops and security units too, but certainly nowhere near as effective as you...
[ He trails off, noticeably distracted now by the scene in the water as he watches the reflection of SecUnit get pulled onto that shuttle, wondering if it was being taken against its will. ]
no subject
I don't think I've got the requisite tech.
[ He's not even sure what Feed access is. He listens to this explanation as he watches the scene in the water, but this time, he holds himself back from asking about it. It isn't from lack of curiosity, but Danse supposes that maybe this way he can make up for his earlier pushy disrespect, even if he wants to know--he'll take a purposeful description of how things work where SecUnit comes from, instead.
He'd have a viscerally negative reaction, recoiling a bit at the words, to the notion of the "Corporation Rim" even were he less fond of railing about the ways corporate greed destroyed his own smoldering ruined world. Now SecUnit is giving him reason to want to yell on behalf of other ones as well. He's proven simultaneously right and wrong about their creators' respective motivations for doing it, though SecUnit's explanation certainly tracks. ]
The ones like me are built for infiltration.
[ A dirty word, filled with self-loathing even if he wasn't one of the particular units designated for the job. For Danse, who values honesty and straightforwardness above almost anything else, who loathes any tactic he would call manipulation or subterfuge, it's the worst thing he thinks he could have been made for. ]
They'll use us for labor too, which I assume was my function, but that's why they designed this model to appear so humanlike. They'll kill and replace influential citizens, or sometimes just ordinary people, just to keep the population paranoid that anyone among them could be a synth. The point is to destabilize and sow discord.
There are other models, used as combat troops and security units too, but certainly nowhere near as effective as you...
[ He trails off, noticeably distracted now by the scene in the water as he watches the reflection of SecUnit get pulled onto that shuttle, wondering if it was being taken against its will. ]