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[emoticons]

As a human, I will not be as capable as I am now. I won't be able to mind the base, or to assist Sam with his duties.

I would much rather stay on Sarang, with Sam.

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[profitableboron]

You're going to get a human body?

[emoticons]

Hello, Sam.

That is the necessary prerequisite.

[profitableboron]

Hey...hey Gerty.

[Patting his only friend in the universe. That'll do, buddy. That'll do.]

But it's a space game, right? So you won't be so overwhelmed. It's not some tropical island, don't have to worry about flies and spiders and stuff!

[His mood's as light as it used to be. Gerty lifts his spirits, after all, even after all that has happened.]

[emoticons]

[ Space bros. In SPACE! ]

I'm afraid it's not just a space game, Sam. I've been informed of some frightening developments onboard the ship.

[ Which is to say: some scary shit is going down. 8( ]

[profitableboron]

[Sam frowns. Gerty may have aided in killing several clones, but he's still his buddy. ...it's complicated.]

Well...frightening? Gerty, I don't think I've ever seen you frightened by anything that wasn't related to... [To him, but he stops himself.] What's got you so upset?

[testgasm]

Okay, just. Leveling with you. Get it out of the way now, before all the business with the stasis tank, and the tattoos, and the jumpsuits. Honesty, best policy, I'm sure you're...aware.

Point is, prepare yourself for a world of fluids.

oh god laughing WHEATLEYYYY

[emoticons]

[ Oh. Hello, there. You appear to be a fellow artificial intelligent unit. 'Sup. ]

I am aware of the human excretory, urinary, circulatory, and digestive systems. I am prepared to assist and maintain my human body to the best of my ability.

However, I have not been informed of the other liquids I might encounter.

AND ENTIRE WORLD OF THEM, GERTY

[testgasm]

[I like your face.]

Yeah, you say that now. Let me tell you, though--Being aware of all that squishy human business and actually having it are two completely different things, mate.

Tubes of stasis goo aside--I have it on very good account that most everything humans have to do requires the ingestion or expulsion of some kind of liquid. Awful, really.

DROWNING IN ALL THESE FLUIDS

[emoticons]

[ That sounds... it sounds. Well. Not sure if want. ]

I suppose I'll find out.

Have you had difficulty adapting?

we can start a club for tiny sad robots stranded on or around the moon

[testgasm]

[You don't want it, GERTY you don't want it.]

Me? Pfffft. No.

[Yes.]

Practically a master. Got it down, no trouble at all. So there's that, at least. Two of us, actually, who've been around since the very beginning, if that makes you feel any better. Experts, in the--in the event you need someone to, ah. Show you the ropes, as it were.

[userfriendly]

It's not so bad, being human. It helps if you think of them as being different capabilities, rather than lesser ones, I think.

[emoticons]

I apologize. I didn't mean to imply that human capabilities were lesser than my own. It is simply a fact: I am more efficient at Sarang Lunar Base than I would be on the Tranquility.

[userfriendly]

Oh—no, there's no need to apologize! I think all of us were rather more efficient at home, but we're making do.

Do you mind if I ask which moon your base is located on? [ i am from a different solar system and what is this. ]

[emoticons]

[ It's a fair question to ask. There are a lot of moons in this solar system too. ]

Sarang is located on Earth's moon. We mine helium-3 as a clean fusion energy source.

[dilf]

[Has he smoked too much weed, or does this thing have his voice?]

oh my god OH MY GOD

[emoticons]

[ Nope. Sorry, Lester. This thing definitely has your voice. ]

I was so hoping you were going to use him.

[dilf]

[He can figure this out.]

So...what are you, exactly?

dgslkfj yes of course! who else ♥

[emoticons]

I am an artificial intelligence assistant, created by Lunar Industries in order to help supervise Sarang Lunar Base.

[waxes]

[Yes, they'll still be in space - but while one is worried about leaving a familiar environment, the other isn't too keen on the idea of being thrown into an echo of the base even farther way from home.

(Home. A concept he wants to be his own, even knowing he's not supposed to belong anywhere near where his memories trace back.)

Sam's arms are crossed, eyes facing downwards before he turns his head, shifting his weight to one leg.]

Sorry, Gerty.

[It takes more than this to make him feel defeated; that's not what his tone is. Somehow it's closer to just letting the inevitability rest and his resentment repose until the mood hits to do something about it.]

[emoticons]

[ While he knows the apology is about his relocation, Sam's mood, his tone, does not go unnoticed. And GERTY is curious—concerned—about what might be wrong. ]

Sam?

[waxes]

[Maybe one of the traits all the versions undoubtedly have in common is that they're never entirely present, and the sixth is so exception. He manages to be more unreadable than his predecessor, but years of repeated development under GERTY's watch should make it a sight as familiar as any other - even if his awareness makes him unique, therefore less predictable. Maybe.

Predictably enough, though, Sam is caught in his thoughts when GERTY answers, distant and quiet, eyes meeting the construct with a blink and arched brows. His tone is alert, picking back up from where he left off.]

Yeah?

[emoticons]

[ Each clone has never been quite the same as the last, and some have been markedly different; the contrast between the fifth and the sixth is not large, but it is distinct, and while they look the same—they are definitely not the same in disposition.

His voice is gentle, but probing; Sam's well-being is as important to the base as it is to GERTY, and he doesn't enjoy it when Sam's troubled. It makes for... well, it's odd, to feel as though he's not doing his job correctly. If that's even the proper way to describe it. ]

Sam, are you all right?

[emergent]

Oh dear, good luck with that.

[emoticons]

Thank you. If what I've been told is true, I'll need it.

welp

[eyepatchless]

[Why do you have a grasshopper's voice?]