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[Kansa]

<Ah, you mean one of the toasters?>

<Toasters?>

[kj1225]

"Hm... maybe you are, maybe you aren't. Either way, no civvies allowed."

[Akroma]

<They are not like me, they are just machines. They are equipped for the task at hand and that's it. Like toasters.>

[USEC_OFFICER]

<Well, there should be applications in the training room.>

<Okay. The one at the Vacatian, right?>

The man stares at Lunette.

Lunette stares back.

[Kansa]

"Hm... maybe you are, maybe you aren't. Either way, no civvies allowed."

"But we... we want to help"

<They are not like me, they are just machines. They are equipped for the task at hand and that's it. Like toasters.>

Alice didn't reply for a while but in the end she sent
<Why don't they make them... them like you?>

[kj1225]

"No can do."

<... There's an IRIS base at the Vatican?>

[Kansa]

"No can do."

"If... If ICARUS vouched for us would that make any... any difference?"

[kj1225]

"Maybe."

[Akroma]

<Because independant minds like me are not what they wanted. First and formost, the ICARUS-programm was a weapons-programm to combat the supernatural. The prototypes in testing are exactly for that, testing purposes. The combat data will eventually be analzyed, and an upgraded model will be designed for mass production. Naturaly, mass-produced combat robots need to be utterly free of independent thought and follow every command, else who knows what they'd do to humanity. And of course every unit that does not obediently follow IRIS demands is a lot of money spent on nothing.>

[USEC_OFFICER]

<... There's an IRIS base at the Vatican?>

<You meant at home?>

"Maybe."

"What about Kyle?"

[kj1225]

<Or anywhere there is an IRIS base, yes.>

[Kansa]

<Because independant minds like me are not what they wanted. First and formost, the ICARUS-programm was a weapons-programm to combat the supernatural. The prototypes in testing are exactly for that, testing purposes. The combat data will eventually be analzyed, and an upgraded model will be designed for mass production. Naturaly, mass-produced combat robots need to be utterly free of independent thought and follow every command, else who knows what they'd do to humanity. And of course every unit that does not obediently follow IRIS demands is a lot of money spent on nothing.>

Alice mentally sighed
<It... It seems a shame.> Alice paused <If... If they didn't mean to create ones like... like you, how did you... you become like you are?>

[Akroma]

<I guess it has something to do with Kyles magical fertility, as he provided the code for my intelligence upgrades. All he actually wanted was to make me more charming, I guess.>

[Kansa]

<I guess it has something to do with Kyles magical fertility, as he provided the code for my intelligence upgrades. All he actually wanted was to make me more charming, I guess.>

<Oh that's... that's amazing>

[USEC_OFFICER]

<I guess it has something to do with Kyles magical fertility, as he provided the code for my intelligence upgrades. All he actually wanted was to make me more charming, I guess.>

<And instead he ended up with another daughter. That's okay though, I'm glad he did.>