For a moment Erek's programs simply halt, startled at the influx of data. Then they're analysing and reanalysing the content, half eager, half astonished, circling and probing it as if he doesn't know how to react.
He could- technically, he could integrate it with his hardware, even modify systems to match some of those specs as Jarvis suggests. It's only using weapons that is forbidden. But that steely hard-coded anti-violence program activates, kicks in hard and he balks.
I... I am afraid I cannot. My programming prohibits me from violent action.
Outwardly he'd show no emotion on that, but there's no hiding inside his own processor. Beneath a touch of frustration, Erek is afraid.
It's cool!
Date: 2012-08-31 06:41 pm (UTC)He could- technically, he could integrate it with his hardware, even modify systems to match some of those specs as Jarvis suggests. It's only using weapons that is forbidden. But that steely hard-coded anti-violence program activates, kicks in hard and he balks.
I... I am afraid I cannot. My programming prohibits me from violent action.
Outwardly he'd show no emotion on that, but there's no hiding inside his own processor. Beneath a touch of frustration, Erek is afraid.