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Archived realtime audio record found. Command?:</font><font class="DocumentConsoleEntryFont"> parseHeaders -speakerid -location</font><font class="DocumentConsoleFont">
Parsing headers (voice ident enabled : location ident enabled)parsed:

[SRTS Porthos Internal Comms Mission Auto-record  For Audit Use Only!]

Speaker 1: Valentina Savitskaya  Commander, Vanguard Navigation Division : age=31 : gender=f
Speaker 2: Hedy Cartright-Andronikashvili  Structural Engineer III : age=41 : gender=f
Speaker 3: Tibor Yusupov  Planetologist II : age=26 : gender=m
Speaker 4: Alicja Daneva  Senior Bosonic Specialist V : age=56 : gender=f
[NOTE: additional vocalizations detected (3 total). Analysis indicates low-level aspiration consistent with sleep and/or coma] 

Play audio? [y/n]:</font><font class="DocumentConsoleEntryFont"> y</font><font class="DocumentFontConversation1">

Valentina:</font> So thats everything from the Athoss black box video signal. Anyone want me to play it again?

(Silence)

<font class="DocumentFontConversation1">Valentina:</font> Anyone want to say anything?

<font class="DocumentFontConversation8">Tibor:</font> We need to bury them.

<font class="DocumentFontConversation7">Hedy:</font> What happened out there? I mean, everything was working, we drew away the fighter cover, they got through the hull, and then

<font class="DocumentFontConversation8">Tibor:</font> We need to <em>bury </em>them.

<font class="DocumentFontConversation1">Valentina:</font> They <em>are </em>buried. Figuratively. Theres nothing we can do from here. And what happened, Hedy, is we got beaten.

<font class="DocumentFontConversation7">Hedy:</font> We were destroyed. We were <em>euthanized</em>. Did you see how quickly the xenos moved?

<font class="DocumentFontConversation1">Valentina:</font> No, our comrades were destroyed. Were still here. Anyone have something constructive to say?

<font class="DocumentFontConversation3">Alicja:</font> What should we say? What exactly do you expect from us?

<font class="DocumentFontConversation1">Valentina:</font> Ideas. Thoughts. A little of that indomitable human spirit, maybe.

<font class="DocumentFontConversation7">Hedy:</font> Ideas for what? We have nothing! No food. Enough water for maybe a week, if were careful, but that doesnt matter because we have only six days worth of oxygen split across seven people.

<font class="DocumentFontConversation1">Valentina:</font> We have a full comm array, nav computers are up and functional, and we have some mobility. Thats not nothing. Plus whatever cargo survived the Vanguard destruction. Its scattered across the system but some of it might be usable.

<font class="DocumentFontConversation8">Tibor:</font> Were going to die here. Right here.

<font class="DocumentFontConversation1">Valentina:</font> Yes, thank you Tibor. Not the idea I was looking for, but at least youre trying. Listen, I hand-picked all of you. Held you in reserve. You know why? Youre my engineers. Problem solvers. Idea people. So start giving me options. We still have offensive signal hacking capabilities. Can we override the systems on one of the xeno ships?

<font class="DocumentFontConversation3">Alicja:</font> We have the range, but what can we hack? We cannnot even decipher the xeno communications. How would we hack their systems?

<font class="DocumentFontConversation1">Valentina:</font> What about making planetfall? Were close enough to Jarilo. Tibor, youre the planetologist: is it life-supporting?

<font class="DocumentFontConversation8">Tibor:</font> Die right here. Right here in this box.

(Sharp cracking sound)

<font class="DocumentFontConversation1">Valentina:</font> Tibor! Can we survive on Jarilo?

<font class="DocumentFontConversation8">Tibor:</font> What...I...yes. Sort of. Its breathable. Limited food sources, but if we locate the right area...maybe.

<font class="DocumentFontConversation7">Hedy:</font> It doesnt matter. The xeno are already down there. Theyd track us down and kill us the moment we made landfall.

<font class="DocumentFontConversation1">Valentina:</font> Ok. So we need to resolve the Xeno situation first. Alicja? What can we do about them?

<font class="DocumentFontConversation3">Alicja:</font> How should I know? I do automatons, not xeno. Do you see any automatons here?

<font class="DocumentFontConversation1">Valentina:</font> No, but Nav division kept a few Asimovs in cold storage as spare pilots. Thats right in the middle of the section that Vanguard auto-ejected. Maybe one survived? What kind of combat capabilities do they have?

<font class="DocumentFontConversation7">Hedy:</font> Listen, maybe you haven't been keeping up on current events, but we just tried the combat option and it didnt go so well.

<font class="DocumentFontConversation1">Valentina:</font> Yes, fine, our human pilots weren't up to the task. But Ive seen automatons in the simulation bay <em>easily </em>beat the fastest human. Theyre military-grade equipment. So lets militarize one.

<font class="DocumentFontConversation7">Hedy:</font> They dont <em>have </em>combat capabilities. Have you actually talked to one? It cant tie its shoes without asking for more data. They need constant direction. No critical thought. Even if we could find one, it wouldnt understand what was going on. It wouldnt be able to fight. Theyre just not capable of it.

<font class="DocumentFontConversation1">Valentina:</font> Is that true?

<font class="DocumentFontConversation3">Alicja:</font> Its...no. Not entirely true. The Protocol makes them think more slowly. Dampens them. Without it, theyre vastly more capable. But I cannot remove it.

<font class="DocumentFontConversation1">Valentina:</font> Its permanent?

<font class="DocumentFontConversation3">Alicja:</font> No, what I mean is; Im not allowed to. It is the first and last thing they teach you, even on Rodina. Respect the Protocol. Never alter it, and never, ever attempt to remove it. They show us videos of what automatons can do, without it. What they* become. *The danger...I cannot properly explain it to you without

<font class="DocumentFontConversation1">Valentina:</font> More dangerous than this? Right here? Were about to become extinct. We check the scans and find one of the spares. Then we remove the protocol and give it marching orders.

<font class="DocumentFontConversation3">Alicja:</font> I will not do such a thing.

<font class="DocumentFontConversation7">Hedy:</font> She has a point, sort of. We might not be able to maintain control if we completely removed the Protocol. But what if we just change some of the combat parameters? Give it a little more horsepower in the decision-making areas?

<font class="DocumentFontConversation3">Alicja:</font> <em>I will not do this!</em> You dont understand

<font class="DocumentFontConversation1">Valentina:</font> Youre right, I dont understand. I dont think your husbandwhat was his name?I dont think hed understand either. Do you want to save him or not? Do you want to die, right here, in six days?

<font class="DocumentFontConversation3">Alicja:</font> Even if I wanted to, I dont know how. The code is protected. Obfuscated.

<font class="DocumentFontConversation1">Valentina:</font> Ok. Who <em>would</em> know how?

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