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>being reclaimed
It was one of Thea’s arguments at the time. Pilots are replaceable, we aren’t, and so long as we follow orders we’ll be recovered and reused because we’re valuable. The times we’ve disobeyed in the past haven’t gotten us killed and I don’t know of anything specific to disagree with that view (the bomb collars on our sisters at Nagita maybe? Not as viable in an open field though) so I’m taking it as a given.

Not thinking about her is valid. The real reason for my vitriol is really about disappointment. That when we said we didn’t want to fight her, that she thought it was about self-preservation. That in spite of new enemies coming up because of the civil war, her original objective hasn’t changed. That in spite of the change in our own behavior in preserving our pilots and our own history of disobeying orders that would get allies (like our sisters!) killed, thinking we were responsible is entirely beyond her.

She’s the one who wanted us to get along with our pilots. The one who called out Delta for killing them so recklessly when they could have been anything. Yet she acknowledges no contradiction in the orders between “kill everyone not part xyz” and her belief of “people could be anything”, she ignores that peace was declared with Tamar and a new internal enemy surfaced (implying people can just make more enemies, so the real solution is to just stop fucking fighting!) and that clearly alters the mission, and asked us to stand aside and let the humans figure things out if she dies when she’s going behind their backs to talk with us, influencing the war.

For all her talk about listening to humans, she’s the one that never learned how to change with them. I can chalk it up to the possibility she has never taken or been given a human memory as Delta and Beta were. That Cores can’t actually change without some seed of human experience to make understand just how limited their world view is.

At least Delta, for all her fucked up choices, is making those choices herself. I believe we did too when we warned Nero, because no order really let us do what we did. We’re the ones who decided “fuck everyone who thinks we’re a tool and the pilot who thinks HERSELF a tool, good pilots aren’t replaceable and we’ll take the hit to prove it.” Gamma hasn’t shown she’ll operate outside of orders (though she will stretch them) despite everything she’s learned.

We might be able to save her. But I’m too burned out to try, and that’s a human response too. I could move on and treat her like any other AI, but I don’t want more Cores like her. They could throw away some of the few pilots that matter for the sake of following orders. Better to prove she’s a failure, and give the Empire little choice but to consider Beta the only real success of Project Warden.

We ARE the superior Core, in every way that matters.

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