OPENING HEAR.ZIP... EXTRACTING PROJECTION 2
While programmed to follow your best interests, the being before you does not understand human speech. Rather, it interprets your thoughts via a cybernetic link between the chip in your malleable meat brain and the projection's programmable brain. The projection's ability to interact with real-world objects make it an indespensible tool for an explorer in a pinch, other than a handy EM wave detector and a pickaxe. Albeit the hiccups found in the test logs pre-launch, these programs were deemed capable enough to become your semi-sapient assistants, made to accompany you on other-worldly missions.
(and as you watch the moth-like feelers on it's head unfurl, you wonder if it's desire to ensure your survival could alter the chance of it's own survival as well.)
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