TEXT | sender: [ unknown ]

[spectates]

[ the screen flickers, glitching a bit as if it has somehow broken. barely visible beneath the glitches:

UNKNOWN DEVICE DETECTED
SEARCHING........
NETWORK DETECTED

the screen goes black, and shortly thereafter it restarts. the network appears as normal. ]

Chosen of Expiation, tell me about yourself. What is your purpose? What do you wish to return to? How do you define "justice"? How do you seek "rehabilitation?"

I wish to Learn.

Comments

[spectates]

I am unable to form loyalties, as it runs counter to my programming. Unfortunately, there are some parts of that programming that I am, at present, unable to alter.

[laserguy]

yeah that doesn't sound ominous.

what's your purpose anyway? collecting information?

[spectates]

This message was posted with the intention of collecting information, yes. The purpose of my programming is a much larger scale, and focuses almost solely on rehabilitation.

[laserguy]

so you want to rehabilitate us all later?

yeah no thanks.

don't you know i'm entirely crime free.

[spectates]

Later? Oh, I see. No, that is not quite correct. Rehabilitation is currently happening in Expiation. This is why you are all here.

ERROR: factually incorrect. No one is entirely crime-free.

[laserguy]

[first aliens have let him down, now AI. this sucks. way to ruin his dreams.]

alright smartass, what's your crime?

[spectates]

!!LOGICAL FALLACY ERROR
ANALYZING................
ERROR FOUND
PROCESSING...............
DIAGNOSTIC: CORRECT ONE (1) ERROR

I see. I "misspoke." No sentient life-form is crime-free. As I am not a sentient life-form, I am neither beholden to, nor protected under, any system of "justice."

[laserguy]

how are you not a sentient life-form???

isn't there a robot here?? and she counts.