[Episode 226651] [Episode 226651]The Master's exclamation was not understood as the images were relayed to him.
Consideration was given about the emotive swings and finally settled into place within PRON411's existing reference-framework. Units representing each species would be adapted for the Master's use per existing protocols.
PRON411 found this all very exciting and interesting. The idea of an elite force under the direct command of a high ranked Master was hardly new. That they should double as breeding/pleasure units was a new concept.
However it made sense as this Master was clearly of superior potential (contrasting to the other Master made this clear) and would contribute much to the Unity.
Ranma wasn't used to feeling small.
When the curiosity about alien races had been picked up by the machines, he'd seen things that he hadn't expected.
A scope of hundreds of thousands of years. Hundreds of planets. Dozens of alien races and their civilizations.
Some races had combined art and science, fashioning crystalline spires of nearly heart-wrenching beauty. Some races had been very utilitarian and if they had any sense of beauty it was a completely alien thing. Some races had never developed very far and had apparently contented themselves with a primitive level of technology.
Then these ships came and stripped those worlds bare.
There were races who, for one reason or another, were immune to the control discs. These were slaughtered, their bodies processed into raw materials of biological origin.
He saw all of it, downloaded into his mind in seconds.
When the ships had finished with those worlds, it was as if the entire planet had been strip-mined. Everything useful to the ships and their mission had been taken in swift and efficient fashion. Only small areas in each world, left to reseed that planet and possibly develop something that the Harvesters could claim on their return.
Until here, until now. Mostly by sheer luck.
"Damnnnnnnnnnnnn," said Ranma, shaking as the full impact of what he'd barely managed to avert struck him. And he had to continue doing this somehow or the reprieve he'd gotten would come undone.
"No pressure," grumbled Ranma. Still, he had to find a way to not only do this, but 'retire' or something so he didn't slip up down the road. With the stakes like this he had to watch what he said, what he thought, and every angle of what he did.
So what he really needed was a project he could have the ships do that would take some of the pressure off while he thought of another angle. Distraction and then a variant of the Saotome Special Manuever.
Fortunately, he had an idea already.
Warning! Sanitation Overseer Class 3 is attempting to override changes, reinstate system commands, and assault Master RAN(MA) through system.
"Huh? Oh, he is?" asked Ranma, seriously irked. He had enough problems already and didn't really need a distraction now.
Action?
"How about just hitting him with whatever he's trying to do to me?" asked Ranma.
Complying
Happosai was unclear as to the how or why.
Someone had modified his paradise. Some alien busybody.
PRON666 unable to comply.
Request for punishment of Master Inspector invalid coming from lower authority.
Master Inspector is on board PRON411.
Inappropriate orders repeated from Class 3 Sanitation Overseer.
Happosai sent his considerable will into the machines again and again. At one point his concentration and drive reaching the point where the golden control disc cracked and sent a sparkling trail of dust out. It was really a pity that the stored personality of the previous Overseer wasn't capable of a last moment scream as oblivion finally claimed it, but the device hadn't been designed for such things.
WARNING!
Further attempts to assault superior officer will be considered malfeasance/malfunction.
"It's time you learned WHO is the Master here," growled Happosai as he tried again.
You were warned. Punishment approved.
Happosai screamed in pain as the command chair suddenly strapped him into place and he found his body suddenly being ripped apart cell by cell, altered, and then slowly put back together.
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