- Conjecture: Your expectations have clearly been lowered by inferior models, master. I have seen your Teeseven unit. "Disappointing" does not describe it.
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527. Option - Don't be so hard on yourself.Player - An impaired efficiency for you might be ten times the average droid's best capacity.
- Denial: Not at all, master. I am merely practicing code words while among polite company. This is an especially useful skill in Republic space.
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553. Option - My mission is peace.Player - I hope you can adapt to new programming, because I don't plan to go around killing anyone if I can help it. +50
- Agreement: Imagine the troublemakers I could delete as an army. My combat processor's temperature raised point three three degrees just calculating it.
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581. Option - I like you, too. Sort of.Player - The feeling's mutual, I guess. You're not gonna try to kiss me, are you?
- Alert: System efficiency has returned to one-hundred percent, master. And I have reactivated several combat subsystems that were previously disabled.
- Proposition: As I do not possess programming for friendship and "ally" is not a job title, is the term "associate" adequately unspecific?
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626. Option - Try not to advertise that.Player - High Command gets a little nervous when troops toss around the "a" word. Let's call you an "anti-personnel specialist."
- My efficiency-reducing subroutine only specifies I delete high-ranking troublemakers in Republic space. The exact political affiliation is undefined.
- Revelation: After thorough research, I have identified three potential candidates. I predict you will not object to my deleting at least one of them.
- First briefing: Lord Cynerus is the Empire's top assassin, personally deleting forty-nine Republic officials. His current assignment is the Senator from Ord Mantell.
- I will follow the Senator closely. When Lord Cynerus makes his move, I will be there to delete him.
708. Option - Capture him instead.Player - An enemy assassin operating in Republic space? He should be taken alive and put on trial--or at least interrogated.
- Description: Lord Cynerus possesses keen intelligence, impressive physicality and is committed to developing exciting new deletion techniques. My kind of organic.
- Explanation: The Empire programmed me to recognize certain organics I should avoid deleting. This defense contractor made the list, master.
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726. Option - You could arrest him first.Player - If everything you say is true, that man should be tried for treason. You can shoot him after he's convicted.
- Complication: His trial could take years, master--assuming Imperial spies do not delete him in prison. I must fulfill my programming to continue functioning.
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730. Option - He deserves to die.Player - I count at least four good reasons to delete this man, starting with his stupid name.
- Third briefing: Ambassador Dak Haron is an Imperial diplomat recruiting unaligned Outer Rim systems to join the Empire. He is surprisingly successful at it.
- Hypothetical: Would you rather delete one ambassador, or millions of new enemies joining the Empire? Calculate carefully, master.
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740. Option - There must be another way.Player - He'd be more useful alive and working for us. Could we subvert your programming by "neutralizing" this diplomat another way?
- Confirmation: According to my projections, Ambassador Haron will increase Imperial-friendly territory over twenty-four percent. His removal would cripple the Empire's diplomatic efforts.
- My Imperial programmer's commands were quite thorough. Failure to delete high-ranking organic troublemakers in Republic space is having a detrimental effect on me.
783. Option - Rise above your programming.Player - I have some experience with people programmed by the Empire to do terrible things. You can override those commands, HK.
- Rejection: To focus additional processing power on these subroutines would only accelerate my incapacitation.
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791. Option - I won't kill for the Empire.Player - If I have to choose between deactivating you and assassinating Republic citizens... you figure it out.
- Interpretation: Your meaning is clear, master. You will not sacrifice a random individual to preserve your loyal servant's continued existence.
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795. Option - I don't need that trouble.Player - We can't just go around blasting Senators. The last thing I need is to become Republic Enemy Number One.
- Alert: The subroutines are deeply imbedded in my behavioral circuitry matrix. The processes cannot be removed, only terminated.
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803. Option - Let's kill a Republic VIP.Player - If deleting a major troublemaker will save you, we could always take out a Supreme Chancellor or two. They're pretty useless.
- Refusal: Unfortunately, master, your current Supreme Chancellor does not fit my target profile. Incompetence is not the same thing as active troublemaking.
- Contemplation: Our recent forays have been stimulating, master. You appear to have an endless supply of organic troublemakers to delete. I find this pleasing.
- Criticism: Your primary goal appears to be self-preservation against overwhelming odds, master. However, you permit your adversaries too much time to delete you.
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901. Option - What about your "techniques"?Player - I took you out with me so you could improve your own efficiency. How's that coming?
- Reconciliation: I understand, master. Your inefficiency stems from deep-rooted emotional instability. Do not despair. There is still time for correction.