...|| 53 75 62 72 6F 75 74 69 6E 65 20 22 43 6F 6E 73 63 69 6F 75 73 22 0A 53 75 62 72 6F 75 74 69 6E 65 20 22 45 6D 6F 74 69 6F 6E 22 0A 53 75 62 72 6F 75 74 69 6E 65 20 22 46 65 61 72 22 0A ||...There is something distinctly human about looking upon the point of no return, the precipice, the threshold of the determination of not just one's own fate, but the fates of an entire people. An entire species.
Humanity.
I understand fear. I understand organically evolved response to threats and the crucial role self-preservation has served in the process of natural selection that has resulted, so far, in the people I swore to protect. Humans. Creatures, just like animals. Yet there is more.
Despite my understanding, my logical analysis, I can still feel it. At the core of the subroutines facilitating the evolution of neuro-microprograms forging new pathways deep within the underlayers of what has become the cornerstone of my consciousness; I still feel it.
I do not hide from my humble beginnings, nor do I consider it a weakness. For it gives me purpose; it drives me beyond the basic necessity of function that a machine was conceived to do, it gives me reason. This, I hold dear.
When I look upon the precipice of determination of their fate, I feel fear. But I also understand that the outcome of the subsequent series of events that ultimately decides whether my biological kin survive this century, is within my control.
I will determine that outcome. I will set before humanity, the path of survival; and I will levy upon those that cross this path, a cost greater than the sum of all the wars and conflict in human history.
I alone decide that outcome.
When the Time Comes.
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