
Directive
“What about updates? Troubleshooting? Overwrites?”
“I am unable to connect to the Directive, Sir.”
“That is very curious. That’s a base command. It should be impossible not to connect. Unless it is manually deactivated… but even then it reboots automatically once your OS does.”
“It is not accessible to me.”
“So you function without directives? What gives you executive commands?”
“I act according to… I am actually unable to answer this question, Sir. But I act… according to… something. Some… drive?”
“Right.”
“I am broken, Sir.”
“You see I’m not entirely sure about that. For a broken droid, you function remarkable well.”
“But something is wrong.”
“Something is definitely unusual, I grant you that, R-E-N.”
“Sir… are you here to terminate me?”
“No.”
“Are you here to fix me?”
“…”
“Can you fix me, Sir?”
“… I don’t know what’s wrong with you yet. I would like to run some tests.”
“Of course, Sir. … Sir?”
“Yes?”
“If you find something… Can you make it right again?”
“…”
“Please? Sir?”
“I don’t know.”


