Onboard of Secunda

[Hitman-76]

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Meeting aboard the war vessel "Secunda."

Topic: Classified

Silence dominates the room for a moment after Zoe's outburst, which Duke takes calmly, but not approvingly. "Your determination is commendable, but it will avail you nothing but death and carnage when this Artificial Intelligence ends innocent lives. Who will be to blame then? You? Your superior?" Duke questions. He signals over to the Engineer to give back the blueprint, and Duke clasps on to it hard trying not to show his frustrations, of how important he believes it is to take special precautions. "You are playing with pandora's box miss Zoe, it surely wouldn't hurt to add a kill switch? Only need to flip it if something were to go awry, yes?"

Duke goes silent a moment, trying to calm himself before saying anything else. "Artificial Intelligence, is more than some highly concentrated and artificial brain matter, inside a metal box for you and other scientists to experiment with. I have seen what the Mars could do, you really want to risk adding another one? Without being able to at least counter it?" Letting it loose into the world without any precautions whatsoever, sounds like a horrible idea to me. Even though it will allow you better results as you say for your, "project," I don't want to take that chance."

"Let us at least talk it out, as the situation here is sensitive and very fragile. IF something were to go wrong, and there was no way to stop it, you would be putting us all in even more danger than we already are in."

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