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[giveusfreedom]

[Markus is a bit nervous about introducing himself, but figures it's better late than never.]

Hello, everyone. I am new here, my name is Markus. I have reached a Data Point and learned more information about our...Mission.

[Is it even the right word? He's not sure.]

I am not built for heavy manual labour, [literally] but I am quite strong and resistant, and my senses are sharper than average. I can also give hand if we need to work with AI.

[Look at him, the proud leader of deviants tiptoeing around revealing his identity. What would Josh think? God, he's feeling guilty already.]

Let me know what you need help with, it's best to make the most of every second we are here.

Comments

[quintet]

Why is it your responsibility to intervene in any of it?

[Sure, society binds us all together, each for all and all for each, blah blah blah, but in practice? Territorial nature didn't die so easily; people tended to mind their own business.]

What does any of this have to do with you?

[giveusfreedom]

[Markus doesn't feel comfortable yet sharing that he's an android.]

It's devolved into a civil war. There is a climate of terror that is completely unreasonable. If humans actually bothered to listen to the androids' demands there could have been a peaceful agreement, but that hasn't happened yet. A whole species is being murdered for nothing, it's not fair.

[quintet]

So?

[All true, all valid, none of it an answer to her question. Quintet has a detective's nose, and it smells something hidden in this.]

Nothing is 'fair,' that's the law of nature; it's why we even have Society to begin with. You're obviously not in agreement with those that want to use vacuous people as fodder... But there's a pretty big gap between disagreeing with someone and taking a stake against them.

Look, if you won't answer the question, you can't think I'll be satisfied. Just say so if you'd rather not talk about it, guy; I might be an idiot, but I'm not stupid.

[giveusfreedom]

I...I owe it to Carl, among the other things.

[Markus is still cautious, but he doesn't want to end the philosophical conversation. Of course he doesn't. Carl raised him well.]

He was more than a mentor, [and master], he treated me like a son. He was...Disillusioned about where humanity was going, and saw in androids a hope for a new future, for a new society.

[He nods to himself.]

It's funny. He always said that humans were fragile machines, that they required constant maintenance, that they were too obsolete to understand...I didn't catch the irony of that at the time.