"Among other things," Vika admits. "...Quite a few of my...opponents, were arguably also people. Fatally flawed and enticed into the simulations to be built and rebuilt. That damn penguin...it's the damn penguin that sticks out to me. Fully sapient. Capable of thinking and feeling. Had to be, his job used to be head manager of the climate control stations, in a better world I'd have to kill him to kill them all. But you know the thing? The fucking thing? You wanna hear the damn bitch of it? Instead of, I dunno, teaching him basic opsec, my idiot fathers wired an IFF into his brain and it turns out they built it wrong. Everything is identified foe. He's more omnicidal than I could ever be and the only reason he's not exterminating all life on Earth is that he's a guard dog."
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