- Correction: The Maker defies simple organic classifications, master. The Maker not only provides form and function, but also marks the undesirables who deserve liquidation.
- Announcement: I have unexpected good news, master. In the process of purging my efficiency-reducing subroutine, I discovered a series of combat protocol improvements.
- Compliance: Targeting systems and reaction time have increased fifteen point eight one percent. My database of organic weak points has more than tripled, master.
Link to Node 681
674. Option - Causing panic is my job.Player - Leave the intimidation to me. Focus on destroying my enemies.
- Assessment: I am finally the engine of liquidation the Maker always intended. We should celebrate my ascension with some especially memorable carnage!
- Statement: The sabotage protocols in my system matrix continue operating, master. Premature deactivation appears inevitable unless I terminate this subroutine.
- However, virtually all undesirables I was programmed to liquidate are invalid. They have succumbed to natural causes, various misadventures and random homicides.
- Confession: I used your vessel's computer in my search, master. If you notice certain operational inefficiencies, I am certain they are not my fault.
Link to Node 749
734. Option - Sounds profitable.Player - Any bounty still alive after this long must be worth a lot.
- Explanation: My target acquisition algorithms are unimpeachable, master. If it makes you feel better, the process took nearly ten times what it should have.
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742. Option - Liquidating them helps you?Player - And you're sure eliminating even one of these targets will save you?
- First briefing: Jedi Master Valara has operated on Imperial planets for years, helping cowardly Sith acolytes escape their training and join the Jedi Order.
- Agreement: Master Valara possesses a talent for survival well beyond most organics. Unfortunately for him, he has never met me.
Link to Node 763
760. Option - He's welcome to the fools.Player - I'd rather see that Jedi take all our weakest recruits than spend the resources to feed, clothe and train them.
- Doctor Marell currently saves injured Republic troops at a secret hospital on the planet Quesh. I have his coordinates and an ideal attack vector.
766. Option - He's a worthy target.Player - Eliminating this doctor not only stops the Republic from keeping soldiers in the war, it destroys their morale.
- During the last war, he betrayed the Third Imperial Assault Fleet and escaped with a sizeable Republic bribe--which he used for facial reconfiguration.
780. Option - I can't believe you found him.Player - The traitor's new face can't be very convincing if you tracked him down that easily.
- Summation: The fleet was ambushed by a sizable Republic force. Our losses exceeded eighty percent of the vessels, and over twenty thousand Imperial organics.
- Conundrum: It is impossible to liquidate all three undesirables, master. Their present coordinates have a limited duration. I must strike at one of them immediately.
- Assurance: My target knew great terror before his liquidation. My only regret is that the remaining two undesirables on my list have moved to unknown coordinates.
689. Option - You have done well.Player - What matters is, an enemy of the Empire has been eliminated. No one escapes our justice.
- Analysis: My systems are operating at ninety-three point six two percent efficiency and rising. I predict restoration to full functionality within two days.
- List: Braga, Tol... Jedi Knight. Status unknown. Tavus, Harron... Lieutenant, Special Forces. Status unknown. Pollaran, Darmas. Information broker. Status unknown.
- Complication: The list is highly outdated, master. All profiles are currently registering as "status unknown." It will take some time to revise this information.
- Retort: Master, I was constructed to provide service well beyond your average lifespan. Deactivation at my current service level is simply unwarranted.
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834. Option - Stupid Imperials.Player - Leave it to the Empire to booby-trap its assassins.
- Perplexity: I have conducted an extensive search for the protocols to end this annoyance. They do not exist within my memory core.
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846. Option - You defective pile of junk.Player - After everything I went through to reactivate you, you're falling apart on me. I should scrap you right now and be done.
- Commentary: My updated galactic history data indicates I missed depressingly little during my unscheduled shutdown. I am disappointed to note the Republic still stands.
- Advice: Self-amusement at the expense of immediate liquidation invites failure. Never give the undesirables an even break.
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914. Option - But good for my business.Player - There's a lot more bounties in peacetime. Why hire someone like me when you can send an army to do the job?
- Instruction: Pausing in the middle of liquidating undesirables allows them to gather strength and potentially regroup. This creates extra work for you.
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926. Option - Don't blame me for that.Player - The treaty wasn't my idea. The Emperor made that call.
- Observation: While I fully support liquidation as a problem-solving strategy, it seems wise to pause inter-Sith hostilities until the Jedi are eradicated.
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936. Option - Revenge is the Sith way.Player - The Jedi talk about their problems. We prefer a more direct approach.
- Bounty hunters should be drafted into the military and organized as the First Imperial Assassination Corps. Liquidations would be swift and glorious.
956. Option - That would never work.Player - Bounty hunters work best alone--and we don't take orders from anybody.
- Conclusion: I will dedicate a small portion of my processors to developing new efficiency-increasing methods. I will inform you when I have recommendations.