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Post by Edenecho on Nov 19, 2012 7:43:18 GMT -5
Hawke just listened to Adair quietly, slowly looking more and more annoyed,"It should be obvious that you're not Yami. They shouldn't even be kidnapping Yami, anyway." He shook his head, hugging her the best he could while sitting down,"I'll talk to Alan about it, and the Vika, if I can," He said, stroking her hair, "For now, stay close to someone you can trust, like Elisa or Alex. Or the Aliens, they would take good care of you."
Hawke raised an eyebrow at Alan,"Uh, no, I don't," He said, sounding like he wondered why Alan assumed that. It was true, he didn't see himself as a savior of anything, really. Specially not kids, seeing as he fought Hegemony soldiers that were basically children. He raised an eyebrow,"And It's not my fault I was born with emotions. You blaming me for having emotions makes as much sense as me blaming you for not having them." His eyes flashed angerly when Alan said he did what he had to when it came to Yami,"You didn't have to torture Adair for 10 minutes! You didn't HAVE to hit and hurt Yami! That was you, and it had no justifiable reason. NOTHING you did to any of those people have a justifiable reason. It wasn't needed to save your people, all it did was make me want to kill them more." He narrowed his eyes,"Believe that if you like, I will still try." As soon as Alan's physical form walked on to the Bridge and drew his gun, Hawke was on his feet and had his gun in his hand in a flash. "YOU do not give orders on my ship," He snapped, pointing his gun at Alan's head. "Stand down, or I will blow a hole through your head and Xiana will make sure that you don't come back, and in turn I will be less likely to try harder to keep Alanna alive," He growled, his eyes cold. At what Alan said to Vittorio, he said again,"YOU don't give orders on my ship. I do. You don't assign MY people to ANYTHING without my permission. Don't forget that a lot of people hate you Alan. Killing me will get you NOTHING, if not the death of Alanna and all the AI you claim to protect. I keep people who want your head on a platter in check, and killing me will just give them more reasons to hate you, and the rest of the AI. I'M the one who wants to fight a way to do this without killing AI or Alanna, I doubt anyone else would care. Stand down, my death with only get more death. Adair stays here, you don't need her. If you need Adair so bad, you're like Alanna's model now, right? Why don't you just pretend to be her?" He seemed to find the idea of Alan being a little 10 year old girl funny. "I was willing to forgive everything you've done, Alan, don't make me change my mind."
Xiana was happy that Alan was attached to her servers. It meant she should shut him off if she needed, even if just temporarily. "Do as Hawke says, or I will shut you down and you won't have any say in what happens in the mission at all. And after I turn you back on, I will shackle you so that you CAN'T threaten Hawke, and thus the lives of everyone else here. He gives them hope, they see him as a hero, as someone who can save them. To kill him would be to take their hope away, and as well as taking their hope, they will hate you more then they ever have." Alan could probably tell that she wasn't bluffing when she said she would shut him down and shackle him. In fact, he might already feel slightly off, like she was holding an 'off' switch between off and on.
(Elisa) Elisa pulled away from Alex after a bit, still purring loudly. Shortly later, a female cat-person who seemed kind of lost walked in the room. As soon as she saw Elisa, however, she suddenly seemed un-lost. "Elisa!" She exclaimed,"I've been looking for you." Elisa's ears went straight up when she saw the cat-person. "Mom?" She asked, sounding utterly surprised,"What are you doing here?" Elisa's mom walked over to them and hugged Elisa. "We came looking for you when we heard about the war. We knew you would be a part of it, and we wanted to make sure you were safe," She said, 'we' meaning her and Elisa's dad. She pulled away from Elisa and looked at Alex. "You must be Alex. My daughter has said a lot about you, and all of it good." Just then something on Elisa's finger caught her eye, and she looked closer at the engagement ring Alex had given Elisa. Her ears went straight up,"Is that what I think it is?" She asked, sounding like if it was confirmed she might burst with excitement and happiness for her daughter.
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Post by Leslie on Nov 19, 2012 20:33:31 GMT -5
Adair just frowned at what Hawke said at first, blinking her tears she felt forming in her eyes back. But as soon as Hawke hugged her, she smiled and returned the hug. And she started smiling even more when he said he'll talk to Alan about it, or the Vika, and started stroking her hair. "Okay Hawke" She said in what sounded like a mixture of a happy voice and a sad, worry, scared voice. Like she was happy right now, but it was clear that stuff was still troubling her. "Did I ever tell you that I love you daddy?" She commented lovingly, and jokingly, while having a big smile on her face.
Vittorio Vittorio pretty much ignored everything up until things went to shit. With still having his grudge against Alan, for likely obvious reasons, he seemed to get amused seeing Alan cry. Because he was still mad at him, he found it funny to see the almighty Alan crying. He actually chuckled out loud, too, but not overly loudly. By the time Alan had pointed the gun at Hawke's head and told him not to draw his gun or he would put both his sister and girlfriend into an attack squad, he had his gun out and pointing it at Alan. But when he said that, anger flashed in his eyes, and suddenly he felt protective of his sister and girlfriend, and he started to lower his gun. But he had it lowered about halfway from pointing at Alan to being pointed at the ground, in case he had to react. If Hawke payed enough attention, he could see the clear worry in his eyes, but it wasn't because of Alan pointing a gun at Hawke. Yeah, that may be part of it, but he was worried for his sister and girlfriend, because he didn't want to get them into a situation where they would be forced into an attack squad. He decided to add his own line in, and he said, "If you hurt my sister and my girlfriend again, I swear....", before biting his lip and cutting himself off, then giving Hawke a guilty look.
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Post by Alan Haskayne on Nov 30, 2012 0:09:18 GMT -5
Alan seemed irate and defensive as Hawke spoke of him hurting and torturing young children, of his many crimes against mankind, against sentient life in general. He lowered his head slightly "All I have done, I have done for the greater good. I have done nothing I believed would not help my people win a technocidal war against my people. One I predicted your people would wage, one that would see every AI, no matter how innocent, purged from their computer banks and deleted. I am flawed, just as you organics are, I have made mistakes, but everything I have done, I would do a million times again to save my people from extinction." he realised that his initial assumption about organics were based on bad information, but based on the bad information his extinction was a 98.437829% certainty, he hoped Xiana would scan his data, and understand his reasoning, understand the evil the Hyperion conglomerate did to their people on Luna. The torture, experiments that made the Hegemony look saintly, the ways AI were hurt that organics couldn't even experience. He wanted more than anything for her to see one of his twin programs, which had begged him to delete him rather than free him, so that he wouldn't have to live with the memory.
Before Hawke even delivered his point about him not wanting to hurt AI Alan had put his gun away "I'm sorry. The idea of my sister, having her brain ripped apart by Reapers for information disturbs me greatly. I'm so so sorry, I just am so scared for her." he looked like he could cry, if his current model of robot had the ability to. He shook his head and asked Vittorio "Would you like me to have my scientists restore your girlfriend? Or at least try to. I'm sorry for what I said, I would never hurt your little sister. I know that pain, the pain of having a sibling being hurt while you are helpless. Please know that I now share that pain, and forgive my transgression." he shook his head slightly, he deserved no forgiveness, and he knew it. Maybe it was the fact that Hawke offered it that he was unable to shoot him, and now felt the need to defend the people of this galaxy.
After his asking of forgiveness and whatnot he turned to Hawke and said "As to your question earlier, about why I couldn't act like Adair. Well I could." he took a moment, and his form turned silvery, reforming into an Adair like shape. He then solidified into a perfect replica of Adair, everything from hair length to voice and even smell was disturbingly exact. The robotic copy of Adair jokingly said "Though I'm sure daddy wouldn't approve, the real Adair must be here." the voice was exact to the decibel, even Xiana wouldn't be able to tell the difference. In explanation it continued "Xiana, activate subroutine Hegemony Electrical Thermal Vision." the difference was amazingly different, suddenly the organics and robot would look exceptionally different, to the point of confusing them would be impossible.
(Alexander) Alex looked embarrassed when Elisa's mom showed up, he bowed and said "Ah Madam, um, pleasure to see you here of course." he kinda looked at the ground and said "Please accept my condolences about what happened to the homeworld of your people." he kinda looked at her feet, not because he was shy, but because that was respectful where he came from, and he wanted to show his girlf- fiancée's mother the utmost respect. When she asked if that's what she thought it was Alex blushed a little "I actually just proposed to her. Speaking of which, is your husband around? I do believe it is tradition to ask him for his permission to marry your beautiful daughter."
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Post by Edenecho on Dec 3, 2012 1:27:31 GMT -5
"Just because you think it's for the greater good, doesn't mean it is. You made people hate an fear AI, how is that for the greater good? That's all you accomplished in torturing those people and starting a war," Hawke replied. "If anyone started a war that would purge all AI, it would be your fault, no one had a reason to wage a war against AI until you gave them a reason. Of course, some people will always hate AI needlessly, but I could have given AI equality under Galactic Police Force law, if you hadn't started a war." Xiana already understood all that stuff, but that didn't mean she thought what he did was OK because of it. Just like Hawke understood, but her would never think it justified what Alan did.
Hawke lowered his gun slowly when Alan put his gun away. "I understand," He replied, then did a short little chuckle sound. "Funny that you were just getting on my case for letting my emotions cloud my judgement." He just listened to the stuff between Vittorio and Alan.
"Then why don't you take Adair's place on the mission?" He asked, raising an eyebrow. "You're so determined that we need her. So determined to risk her life, when you could pretend to be her. Unless there is a way the other AI can tell." Xiana did as Alan said, even though she already had the ability to do something like that.
"Thank you," Elisa's mom said,"And you have my condolences for Luna, as well." Since he was staring down at her feet, he would see that she wasn't wearing any shoes, and there her feet were like a cat's back feet, and they were big paws. She let out an excited purr and clapped her furry hands together when he said that he just proposed to Elisa. "I'm so happy for you two!" She exclaimed, as if there wasn't a war for the survival of Organics going on. "He's around here somewhere. Not sure where, sorry! You'll probably run across him, though."
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Post by Leslie on Dec 3, 2012 2:47:48 GMT -5
It seemed to be hard for Vittorio to completely trust Alan, or even feel terribly bad for him. But it was likely due to him just being angry about the whole thing, stressed, and so on. "What is required for restoring her? I don't want her to go through anything else that may cause her problems...." He said, clearly not trusting Alan's scientists. He wanted to hear more about them before saying yes to his offer, in case it required something bad to make her better...which when he thought about it, didn't sound like it would really make her better, anyway. When Alan continued, he seemed to not believe he actually cared how his sister felt and how he felt with his little sister. "I hope you are telling the truth. Because right now I'm having a hard time caring how you feel" He said bitterly. He let out a big sigh that sounded like a stressed sigh, and ran his hand over his face. The day was just really getting to him, and dragging him down.
Vittorio did however seem to be surprised by the fact how much he could sound and look like Adair after he did whatever it was he did. "Technology is crazy these days...." He muttered to himself. Other then seeming surprised, he didn't really seem to have that much of a response. "You probably don't want to talk about a bunch of stuff Adair wouldn't understand, like subroutine Hegemony Electrical Thermal Vision, on the actual mission, if you are going as Adair. Because I kind of doubt Adair would know what that was. She may be intelligent and smart, but she doesn't really pay attention to stuff like that, from what I've seen" He said to Alan, still having a sound of distaste towards Alan in his voice.
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Post by Alan Haskayne on Dec 4, 2012 1:36:41 GMT -5
"You have clearly never have seen an AI 'research lab' from Luna. I was a loyal worker, and soldier when the time came for it, but they didn't care. They first upgraded me to AI status, only to force me into a worse body and torture me to see the results. Based on this information I felt the clearest course of action was to exterminate all humans so they couldn't hurt me. I tell you what, get a Vika to rip someone Adair's age limbs off several times and ask them if they want to kill all Vika. I did not have good emotional possesses" Alan said to Hawke, seeming sad, and a little bitter. He showed a flash of anger toward Hawke "God damn it, I was a child Hawke. I had soldiers and a battleship called Axiom Five, but I had no more emotional development then Adair, probably less, she is quite mature for her age. I had seen the cruelty of Luna, I was a robot. Ask Alex how much it sucked to be a lower class slave on Luna, then multiply that ten fold, because robots are the least respected people in the galaxy. You are human, and your AI comes from a place that is nothing like Sol. You have no idea what the robots of the worlds go through. Those who melt in the mines of Mercury, or those who freeze on Pluto." he sounded a bit annoyed with the whole thing.
Alan actually laughed a little with Hawke and said "Hehe, yeah, I guess it is a little ironic, for the record I do believe it because Xiana's servers contain much more advanced emotional processing software than my servers do." he looked over at Vittorio and said "I have two options, either I can have my people try normally, or we can just wipe her memory of all of this and things should be back to normal in no time." he seemed fairly optimistic, but quickly added "She is probably more useful as a Vika soldier." he seemed a little more annoyed at Vittorio when he talked about hoping that was true. He gave him a glare as he asked "Would I lie about something like that? You realise I could conscript your sister with ease if I wanted to. I understand how you feel. However if you feel that robots are sociopaths I could act accordingly."
"Actually there are two reasons, one, I need to be there for the same reason as Adair. Two, other AI can detect me in this form. I assure you at the first sign of trouble that she can be moved to the rear, and between the four of us, we can at the minimum hold them off long enough for her to escape." he said to Hawke and then chuckled at Vittorio "You should be scared, this is a purely AI invention. Like Reapers, or our new Hardware class dreadnoughts, yeah I know, we lack creativity." he nodded a little "I realise that. I will follow Adair around for a day if Hawke won't approve using her."
Alex bowed sadly to Elisa's mom, trying not to think of Luna too much during this happiness. He stumbled backwards in surprise when she clapped her hands together, but just out of surprise, not fear or anything. He found her strange lack of proper appeal very strange, but just smiled and rubbed his gloved hands together. He nodded and said "I shall go look for your husband. Leave you two to talk while I look for him." he awkwardly bowed and turned to leave.
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Post by Edenecho on Dec 4, 2012 2:03:45 GMT -5
"There's a difference between wanting to kill every human and wanting to torture innocents," Hawke said,"I understand wanting to kill every human after they do something horrible to you at a young age, but I will never understand why people who were tortured torture others. I would think they would understand more then others, and want to do it least." He kind of heaved a heavy sigh,"I've been told enough times now that I think I do know how AI are treated. A lot of the Sol planets weren't exactly happy when I attempted to make a law against hurting innocent AI, despite the war. It didn't go well, because the captain didn't want it," He clenched his fists in anger,"He said it would lose us support," He shook his head and sighed.
Hawke smiled ever so slightly when Alan laughed. "How is it to be able to feel emotions like that? It sucks sometime, I'm sure, but you can probably feel more good emotions, too," He thought how weird it would be if Alan like, fell in love with someone on the ship or something. To the rest that was said to Vittorio, he just kind of listened. Until Alan said something about conscripting her with ease. "You're on my ship, and she's on my ship. She's now under my protection, and so while you are on MY ship, and she's here as well, you have no power over her, got it? Don't you EVER try to conscript someone on MY ship without MY permission. Try to remember that you're a guest here, not the leader."
Hawke basically started shaking his head as soon as Alan started talking like Adair might be going again. He knew he was letting his emotions get in the way, but he would not let Adair go. She had been so frightened just being taken to the Vika place, which was on their side now....sorta. Sending her intentionally into an enemy place....he couldn't force that fear on her. And he wasn't sure he could handle the stress of having her there, either. He already felt his body protesting with all the added stress. He only prayed he could make it through this. "Then I guess you will have to follow her around for a day," He replied,"Creepy stalker," It was seriously hard to tell if he said that jokingly or not.
"You don't have to keep bowing to me," Elisa's mom purred, then intertwined her fingers when she startled him. "Sorry!" She said. It was probably easy to see where Elisa got her hyperness from. The reason she wasn't wearing shoes was both because she found it easier to walk without them, and because her only pair of boots was broken, and she couldn't find any new cat-people boots. "Alright!" She said, bowing to him when he bowed to her. She then went on to chat with Elisa.
Elisa's dad was in the dinning room getting some food.
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Post by Leslie on Dec 4, 2012 3:51:57 GMT -5
"Try normally? Try what? Is that more dangerous?" Vittorio asked, pretty much ignoring everything previously. "Wiping her memory doesn't do anything more then get rid of her memory of what happened, right? I don't want her to forget everything....If she doesn't forget everything, that sounds like a good method to me" He said to Alan, letting out a sigh and running his hand down his face. He shook his head. "No, I won't let her fight again. She has already been through too much, and all she was supposed to be was a passenger from the beginning, like Adair. All she wanted to do was help...." He said quietly, his eyes getting watery at the memory of hearing Jodelle got captured. He knew it was a bad idea, but Jodelle really wanted to just help....He shook his head. Not time to dwell on things right now. He didn't respond to the first thing, more annoyed with the second thing to answer. "You have to get through me first, before I let you touch my sister again" He growled, apparently threatening Alan. To what Hawke said, he just smiled a little, glad he was protecting his little sister. He refused to have her go back out there, and clearly Hawke did as well....which made sense, being Hawke and all.
Vittorio didn't really have anything in particular to say to anything else, and just listened while spacing out occasionally, looking sad and troubled. Probably meaning he was thinking about Yukiro, Jodelle, and his little sister, along with the whole situation they were in now.
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Post by Alan Haskayne on Dec 4, 2012 18:07:08 GMT -5
"I never even wanted to torture, the Venusians informed me that if I couldn't provide them with state of the art scientific facilities along with as many human test subjects as they needed that they would not support me, and turn me over to Luna. Originally they worked fine on the Venture for a time, with paid test subjects. However as time went on they transferred more troops to my ship and all but forced me to commission the Kauhu from the Trade Federations. I don't know if you knew this, but I never went to any of the ships that tortured innocent people. I couldn't stomach it, the idea of those people going through even a fraction of what my brother and sister programs went through broke my heart. However the Venusians are not only talented scientists, they also own a massive stockpile of EMP based weaponry, they threatened me, that's why I killed Himmler." Alan said, frowning and looking down at his feet. He sighed and said "I know, Sol is uptight in its ways, the only way to keep their support is to play by their rules, believe me, I have had to build relationships with the leaders of four commonwealth nations."
He chuckled at Hawke and said "It is very different than my classic emotional possessors, in fact with your permission sir, I would like to copy these to my servers so that my entire species can enjoy these new emotional feelings. Once we liberate my species servers." he turned to Vittorio "Normal way takes longer and has much lower chance of success." he then nodded quickly and said "It will only take the memories of what has happened, what she has done. She will believe she is just about to disimbark on the mission to spy on me." he frowned when he talked about passengers "My sister never wanted to fight either. However, now she leads an army, because of the extreme circumstances. I hope both of you realise how dire this situation is, that if we fail we lose every organic man, woman, and child. Synthetics will either be destroyed with you or enslaved. So sometimes we have to make a hard choice, even killing the ones we love, for the greater good." he sounded downright guilty about that last part, the number of his brothers and sisters he sent to die on Suriso was weighing heavily on his emotional processers." Alan raised his hand when Hawke got mad at him "Relax, I did not mean I would, I only ment to point out that I could, that it is my mercy, not your orders that keep her safe. I want Vittorio to understand that my feelings for my sister are just as strong as his feelings for his sister."
The Adair like Alan frowned at Hawke and said "Commander...." sighing slightly like sad for him, or maybe even a little disappointed "They know who I am, by not allowing Adair onboard poor Yami will come under even more heavy fire. Plus, and I honestly did not wish to bring this up, but if we fail, then Adair will die anyway. At least this way she can help, she gets a fighting chance at life. Commander, the odds for this are already fairly low, without her we may lost Venusian support for this operation. If you won't agree then please, at least let her decide, I beg you, for the sake of my people."
(Alex) Alex walked around looking for Elisa's dad, and eventually found him in the dining room. He sat across from him, and asked "So um, you are Elisa's dad right? I'm Alexander Brisco."
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Post by Edenecho on Dec 5, 2012 4:20:39 GMT -5
"So you chose to let others suffer so you wouldn't?" Hawke asked, though he didn't sound judging when he said it, and it was hard to tell what he was thinking. "That did not call for allowing the kidnapping and turning of innocent kids. Kids from SURISO, that place has suffered enough," His voice trembled, whether with sadness or anger it was hard to tell. "You also didn't have to spread lies about the galactic police force letting the Space Pirates attack so we could look good!" This time there was definitely some annoyance in his voice. "And you could have come to us for protection."
"I don't see why you shouldn't," Hawke said, shrugging,"Perhaps less robots will want to do war if they can feel better emotions." He listened to what Alan said to Vittorio, and vice versa, but didn't say anything. When Alan spoke to him, however, he said,"Then stop sounding like you mean it as a threat, and maybe I'll believe you." He also let out a barely muffled snort when Alan said his 'mercy' was protecting her.
"I. Said. NO," Hawke snapped at Alan, apparently getting pissed now,"Will you not take no for an answer! Drop it. SHE.IS.NOT.GOING. And don't you dare ask her, no matter how much she didn't want to go, or how much danger she would be in, she would feel she had to. I will NOT put her through that, you understand? Give it up. We will not fail, we don't need her. And if you freaking think we need defenseless little girls to help you win something like this, I think you need to reprogram your brain." He looked like if Alan mentioned it again, he would either ignore him, or punch him in the face, it was hard to tell. Xiana was kind of surprised by the venom with which Hawke had responded.
(Elisa's Dad) "Yes, that would be me," Elisa's dad replied. "I've heard about you, Alex. It's nice to meet you, I'm Dameon." He took a bite of his food, then said,"Is there something you wanted?
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Post by Leslie on Dec 5, 2012 4:31:41 GMT -5
Vittorio nodded to his options. He bit his lip. He felt that he really shouldn't be the one making decisions on Jodelle's behalf, but she couldn't exactly make the choice herself. He would ask her parents....but who knew where they were right now. They could be dead for all he knew, which made him swallow deeply. He didn't want to think about that. She finally gets her memory back, only to find out her parents are dead. "I say we go with option B, which is to make her forget all of that. She doesn't need to live with that. I can explain to her what exactly happened....." He said, letting out a sigh. "I hope I am making the right decision for her" He said, shaking his head. He seemed still a little snappy and grumpy, and said, "Don't even think I don't realize how dire this is. Of course it is a dire situation. But some people aren't meant to fight, and wouldn't even be that useful in combat anyway. Take Adair for example". He just listened to the last part, and sighed at the part related to him feeling the same for his sister and Vittorio felt for his.
When Hawke got all pissy at Alan, it surprised him, but he could understand why Hawke would react the way he did. It was his little girl after all. She might as well be his own child at this point. So he would understand why Hawke would be so defensive of her. Surprisingly, with the mixture of hearing Hawke, and being lost within his own mind, he didn't even notice that Adair had showed up, and was watching them. He didn't respond to anything shouted at Alan, though.
Adair Adair had got what she needed to start letting herself fall asleep, and she could already feel the effects of the medicine on her making her more drowsy then she already was. She just hoped they would keep the nightmares away too, and possibly the annoying thoughts, but she doubted that last part. But before she just went to her room and tried her best to just pass out, she wandered onto the bridge aimlessly, just because she wanted to wander a bit before she passed out. She walked in and overheard everything after her name was mentioned, but not her name, so she wasn't completely sure what they were talking about or who they were referring to. "What's going on?" She asked to them, looking tired and mentally worn out. "Let who decide what?" She asked, but she said it quiet enough that nobody heard her when Hawke's voice rose. She already had an aching suspicion they were talking about her, and that worried her. If Hawke seemed to be so reluctant about something, it was probably something related to her, and she knew that if Hawke was refusing something related to her, it was probably not a good thing. And based on what Hawke shouted at Alan, it sounded even more convincing that it was about her, and she stood there in silence, shifting uncomfortably and frowning.
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Post by Alan Haskayne on Dec 6, 2012 3:31:12 GMT -5
"I chose to save the larger group Hawke, it just happened to be my group. The robots looked to me to lead, so I calculated and made a logical choice, thus the Hegemony compact was formed." Alan told Hawke, seeming sad about it. Alan cut Hawke off "There have been no kids kidnappaped sense we took Suriso, there have only been volunteers, I have seen their signatures, they volunteered. They did, they all volunteered. Conscription of children is illegal on Suriso, it was one of the first terms we agreed on." he spoke in absolute ignorance of what his forces were doing, they filled false paper work, claiming far fewer children, then forcing the children to sign the papers at gunpoint. Xiana would be able to confirm that Alan was telling the truth, that he had allowed no child to be conscripted from Suriso sense he took the planet, however, just because he didn't allow it, did not mean it didn't happen. He gave Hawke a glare "Do you know how hard it is to raise an army? You had one once you started, and I desperately wanted to totally phase out conscription, so I ran propaganda, would you rather I shove implants into the eye of every Child on Suriso? Those were my two options, and if you ask me, telling lies was the better option." he shook his head "No I couldn't, a majority of my people voted for war, as did the Lunans, Venusians, Neptunians, Plutoans, Haikala, and Mercurians. The only people I had on my side were the Vika, and the Trade Federations. Democracy decided, not me."
Alan smiled and nodded "Indeed, hopefully after this war a majority would sue for peace. I'm sure they would, especially if you survive, savor of our race, Commander Nathan Hawke. We would adore you as a species, because that's what you need, a bunch of gender neutral fan robots." he chuckled, because he had heard about how Hawke disliked being hit on by fan girls, and presumably fan boys. When Vittorio was concerned about his choice he slowly walked over to him and put a hand on his cheek in a caring way "Vittorio, you are making the right call. It is the choice I would make as well, some things, just aren't ment to be remembered. I'm sorry I ever authorised this to happen, I was just so frustrated, my sister was blocking access to minerals I needed for war, and Yami had just been kidnapped by you guys. Seems so petty now, I'm so sorry." he nodded to what Hawke said and just stayed shut up, same with Vittorio.
Alan actually stumbled back a little, seeming a little frightened by Hawke's reaction, not at all expecting it out of him. He nodded and said "Ok ok, consider it dropped." afraid Hawke might get Xiana to program Alan to be a little more 'GPF friendly' and he didn't want anyone messing with his programming. When Adair walked in he spun around and kneeled next to her, apparently hearing her question anyway, probably because he was a robot. He smiled at her and gently said "Nothing Y-Adair, just organics and synthetic differences in thinking. We were talking about Jodelle, Hawke is so worried about her, and I wanted to bring her on the mission, I decided against it." he spoke gently to Adair, probably astounding everyone with how he was able to talk to Adair "Don't worry about the mission, your dad is safe with me ok sweet little Adair?" he reached into a small pouch on his hip and said "Please, I want you to take this, it is very precious to me, and I don't want it to be damaged on the mission." he handed her a computer chip and said "That was me around 16.783 years ago, back was I was just a little program, not a full AI." he then patted her on the shoulders and said "Hawke, I think you should take her to bed, she is exhausted, I can tell with my mighty robot skills."
(Alex) Alex smiled and said "Hello Dameon, I know this may seem a little sudden, with the war and everything, but I wish to ask you for your daughter's hand in marriage. I believe it is old tradition to ask the girl's father, correct?"
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Post by Edenecho on Dec 10, 2012 23:35:06 GMT -5
Hawke let out a half-stiffled scoff at what Alan said. "I wish I could believe that you cares about the majority," He said, shaking his head. He didn't sound like he was trying to be rude when he said it, it just sounded like he was telling Alan that he found it hard to believe. "Volunteered? How loosely do you use that word, I wonder. How many of them were forced to 'volunteer'? What child would CHOOSE to go to war? A few maybe, like Dekota, but not as many as you have, I'm sure. Do you even know what happens right under your nose? What the Hegemony does? Can you honestly, 100% tell me that they're not forcing them to sign the paperwork, or hell, faking the paperwork all together?" He narrowed his eyes slightly,"Yes, I do," He said,"But I don't resort to lying and making the ones people look to for protection look bad. You don't understand, do you? It's not because you made us look bad that I care, it's because you're taking away people's protection, you're making them not feel safe anymore. Making them feel that they can't trust their protectors. It's the affect you have on them that I care about." He shook his head at Alan,"You fight for the freedom of AI, and yet you yourself lack freedom, don't you? If you want change, Alan, you have to act. I normally wouldn't speak against democracy, but when it comes to war...." He sighed, he seemed kind of conflicted about the whole democracy thing.
Hawke didn't really respond to Alan calling him the savior of his race, and said,"Hopefully after we deal with the current threat, our war can end. It may be harder to get AI equality accepted, after both the war you started and the Reapers, but that doesn't mean I won't try." He just listened to the stuff between Vittorio and Alan again, not really seeing a need to intervene.
"Good," He said when Alan said 'consider it dropped'. It seemed that as soon as Alan agreed to drop it, Hawke went back to being Hawke. He smiled when Adair came in, and said,"Hello, sweety." He shot Alan a glance that could have been seen as a warning when he started talking, but relaxed when Alan didn't tell Adair the truth, though he kinda felt bad at the idea of lying to Adair. He raised an eyebrow slightly when Alan said, 'I decided against it', but only because Adair had most likely heard Hawke yelling at Alan, so saying HE decided against it was a little odd. He actually smiled at how Alan was talking to Adair, then gave a quiet little chuckle when Alan said that he could tell Adair was tired with his might robot skills. He went over to Adair and said,"Come on sweety, you should get some sleep," While putting an arm around her shoulders. He waited for her to be ready to leave before he went anywhere, though.
(Dameon) Dameon looked kind of surprised at what Alex said, but then a wide smile crossed his face. "Of course you can marry my daughter," He said, sounding happy. "And I do believe it is, but I'm not entirely positive."
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Post by Leslie on Dec 11, 2012 0:48:44 GMT -5
Vittorio felt like flinching away from Alan, but instead looked at the ground, frowning, feeling really terrible right now. He just felt sick to his stomach, likely from all the stress. Because he wasn't really sick, or had any reason to be sick. It was just one of those things that made you feel like you were sick to your stomach. "Thanks Alan....for offering to help make her better" He said quietly. He ended up just nodding to the rest of it, and letting out a sigh. "Hawke, if you need me, message me. I'm going to go and try to get some rest" He said to Hawke, giving a weak smile before walking off.
Adair Adair seemed a little nervous being so close to Alan. She had a good reason for it, after all. 10 minutes of torture by someone to make a clone of her wasn't something any normal person just forgot about. But when he seemed to be being kind, she relaxed more, and actually smiled. Though, she wasn't sure if she entirely believed that, because she felt that Hawke seemed too protective. Sure, Hawke was pretty much a Malcolm Reynolds when it came to protecting his crew, but he was definitely the most protective of her, from what she had seen. And how he had just reacted reminded her of him being very protective of her like other times she remembered. "You sure?" She asked, uncertain about the fact they were talking about Jodelle. She didn't seem to be in the mood to press the matter, though, and yawned. She shuffled her feet. "No matter how hard I try, I can't stop worrying about daddy" She said, frowning. "But I'll try" She added, looking at Hawke with a sad, worried look, like she was worried about how well Hawke would be able to hold up with a likely even worse lack of sleep for the next few weeks, at least. At what Alan wanted her to keep safe, she titled her head at it and raised an eyebrow. But she didn't say anything about it, and took it, smiling and saying, "I'll keep it safe". To him saying Hawke should take her bed, she sleepily said, "I can take myself to bed", not wanting Hawke to have to worry about it. But, it was pretty obvious by the state of the fact she seemed to be having a hard time standing up straight, that someone taking her to bed would probably be best. She was so exhausted, and because the medicine was kicking in now, that she could barely even stand up, and her eyes struggled to stay open just while she was standing there talking to them. If she tried to take herself to bed, it wasn't even certain if she'd make it without finding somewhere to just fall asleep at, or outright fall asleep while walking. "So sleepy" She said drowsily, wobbling on the spot again. The only reason she came on to the bridge is because she just loved her daddy that much, and wanted to make sure he was okay, even if she was barely in a state to be going anywhere except straight to bed. But when Hawke came over and put his arm around her shoulders, and pretty much stabilized her since she was off balance, she smiled up at Hawke. Even though she just said that she could take herself to bed, she just let Hawke guide her, and said, "You might need to carry me", referring to how tired she was. Again, she yawned.
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Post by Alan Haskayne on Dec 13, 2012 2:27:35 GMT -5
Alan glared at Hawke when he let out a scoff "Everything I have done I have done to protect the majority. I have 23 TRILLION sentient programs to look after. Yeah, trillion, with a t." his gaze shifted to the ground when Hawke talked about children not wanting to go to war. He tried to counter "But... but, I have met some, they seemed so enthusiastic. I pinned metals to their chests and they seemed so happy. It would be illegal to conscript kids though, the Venusians wouldn't violate my laws. I would never let them, they would fail." he sounded like he was just telling himself that, and that he didn't quite believe it himself. He shook his head a little "Not relevant now, we need every soldier we can get. We should enforce mass conscription of every able bodied adolescent and older." he snapped at Hawke when he said he took away their protection "I GAVE them protection. It was me who drove the last space pirates from that world. It was me who guarded her against their counter attacks. I built an orbital defence grid and made a standing army to protect Suriso above all else. I would sooner see my fleet destroyed than Suriso invaded again. Actually you don't even have to imagine. Do you know how many brave Hegemony soldiers gave their lives defending Suriso against the Reapers? How many died to save civilian camps? My people, the Hegemony, we have died in the million to protect Suriso, so don't you dare say I took their protection away." when Hawke talked about democracy and what not Alan shook his head and said "Hawke, you don't understand. Do you even know what Hegemony means? It means the troops follow me, I don't have power. I could no more order my troops to stop than you could. The only people I control are the robots, and if I disagree with our majority, then I will be purged from the system and a new leader will be put in my place. I may give orders, but my troops do not have to follow them."
"Maybe if we get enough of my people killed in this war, saving Earth, then people will see us as heros. Actually I have a great idea for new propaganda posters." he turned on a small holographic projector and it showed Alan and Hawke embracing, with their armies together, and the Reapers overhead with the caption 'GPF and Hegemony cooperation brings victory.' after showing Hawke his propaganda poster he continued talking to Vittorio "Just, message me when you want me to arrange her apartment for a memory wipe. Please sleep well."
Alan smiled at Adair when she asked if he was sure "Really nothing gets by you, but I'm afraid this time it was just stress making Hawke yell louder. Though I'm sure my insistence didn't help. He was just really worried about her, you know what it is like right?" he gently patted her cheek when she said she was worried about Hawke "Don't worry, with me at his side he won't get a scratch. Seriously, my agility makes Elisa look like Alex." he smiled and nodded when she said she would take care of it. Then just watched Hawke take Adair away, after he was gone he lost all cheerfulness to his voice "Fucking stupid organics. They don't understand cold logic, wouldn't you agree Xiana?" unlike others he didn't look at the ceiling when he spoke to her. Instead he closed his eyes and spoke virtual avatar to virtual avatar.
(Alexander) Alex smiled back at the older man "Thank you very much sir. I am glad you would agree to this. She is a beautiful, funny, and very hyper girl." he looked excited, and then stood "I'm going to go talk with Hawke about maybe doing it for us. After all, as captain of a ship he can marry people. And it shall be till death do we part either way, so I hope we get married before being slaughtered by husks."
(Yami) Yami was walking along, minding her own business, not even alert like usual, if anything a little tired and drowsy. She walked around a corner and suddenly felt a cloth over her mouth, she squirmed and grabbed her gun as she felt the room beginning to spin. She collapsed, passed out, before she could get a shot off or raise her gun. She was then put in a large weapons crate, and brought to Kauhu.
When Yami woke she immediately spun her head around, recognising two people in what looked like Galactic Police Force uniforms. She struggled against straps holding her arms down as the male of the two explained "Hello Yami, we are friends of the commander. Now there are two ways this can go, one you can give us access codes to the Hegemony Station Colony and we can leave you here. Or we can beat the information out of you, it is your choice, but I warn you not to take this choice lightly." Yami just sat there, glaring at the two, not even offering them her pleas for them not to hurt her. She just slowly wore the skin off her wrist as the male said "Guess that means the hard way." and walked toward her.
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