Aabria Iyengar

The engineer or mechanic responsible for the integration of this vessel with the newer ORMS system

did not see conflict as a glaring inefficiency.

The preservation of the older computer system on this vessel represents tremendous care and skill, and, to my knowledge, would have been accomplished at tremendous inefficiency, for reasons that escaped me, but obviously not the skill of our mechanic.

Yes.

The analogy I might use for what I feel I am experiencing here is if the constituent parts of a sapient creature's mind possessed different ego, I don't know how healthy it would be if one's emotional state considered itself separate in identity to one's prefrontal cortex, for example.

My understanding of the little angel and little devil is that it does not typically work well for the guy in the middle.

I'll use a technology check to attempt to block it.

Sweet.

All right, let's go.

Opposed roll.

And I'll burn some grit to add a plus three to the roll.

Hmm.

I may have given offense to one of the computer systems on the ship.

However, the temperature of the response does confirm some of the offensive things that I believed.

That moment where you call someone an asshole in earshot and they throw a brick at you and you duck and go, I get it, but also... I'm unfortunately not wrong.

We're not totally safe here.

but that's okay.

Oh, I mean physically too, but yes.

I'm going to put a finger up in the air like there's wind blowing and I go, I bet we're good.

Let's do it.