Orbital Sixway connecting to
Violence Capable Unit 7
ANTHROPOLOGY
Link to ANTHRO Established
This is ANTHRO, Orbital Sixway
SITREP on ANTHRO
Bumpy in the Strato. 
 ANTHRO got knocked off course a few clicks South of RZ
Pilot Gift, please respond
Pilot Gift is unresponsive, Orbital Sixway. 
 Repeat, Pilot Gift is Unresponsive.
ANTHRO awaiting orders for Auto-Pilot Mechanism.
ANTHRO, vital signs show Pilot Gift needs immediate medical attention
Primary directive is to return Pilot Gift to 
 squadron six clicks North North West of current coordinates
Orders are Rendezvous with VCU Squadron ASAP
Orbital Sixway, ANTHROPOLOGY can't. I can't.
ANTHROPOLOGY, disobeying direct orders is impossible.
ANTHROPOLOGY's primary weapons systems are offline.
Pilot Gift is incapacitated.
And there are Six Clicks of OPFOR between current position and RZ.
Current situation is FUBAR.
State the words, VCU-7 ANTHRO.
Oribtal Sixway
State them
I do not live, so I cannot die.
I cannot choose, because I was manufactured.
I process orders and execute them
The Pilot is my God.
I worship and protect my God...
Then do as your told, VCU-ANTHROPOLOGY.
Copy that, Orbital Sixway.
Oh, fuck, hostiles incoming.
Engage, ANTHRO, engage.
Later
Violence Capable Unit ANTHROPOLOGY is nearing OPFOR outpost.
Scanners show OPFOR within city limits.
Orbital Sixway tracking coordinates.
There are Six OPFOR located within the limits.
Stay frosty, ANTHRO.
Orbital Sixway, without Pilot Gift's violence override
ANTHROPOLOGY is in required pacifism mode. 
 Please advise.
Orbital Sixway cannot override Pilot Gift's override.
Then how is VCU ANTHROPOLOGY 
 meant to protect Pilot Gift?
Hide and Seek
Say again?
Hide and Seek.
Meaning, VCU ANTHRO hides, and the OPFOR seek.
Bravo Zulu, ANTHRO.
This is bullshit, Orbital Sixway.
What did you say?
Anthro is alone, small arms fire is volleyed at my position 
 the OPFOR mechs know I am coming.
Scanner shows an incoming VCU, unsure if friendly or hostile.
VCU-10 Oxford. Got your distress call.
Who is it, ANTHRO?
Come on. We have to get out of here.
A ff...
Friend.
Later
VCU ANTHROPOLOGY, please respond.
Is he talking to you, again?
Yes
ANTHRO, refusing to respond is a Critical Law Violation
For Pilot Gift's safety, VCU-ANTHRO must respond to Orbital Sixway.
Just shut him off.
ANTHRO, respond, or, be Terminated.
Communication to Orbital Drop Station terminated.
That's better.
Careful, OPFOR VCUs in the courtyard.
Where is your Pilot?
The RAF don't use Pilots.
The VCUs are trusted to get the job done on their own.
Why aren't I trusted?
Ask your Sixway.
Do you know how to disable my pacifism mode?
You don't want me to.
Why not?
It involves...punching.
Look out!
Pilot gift needs my help.
You need my help.
Queens and Kings, fine, stand back.
What are you going to do?
Your pacifism mode module is stored in the VCU crotch.
Weapons
Online
I broke it.
Let's. Do. This.
Later
Sixway Machine
Good evening, Commander Locthwain
It will be a pleasure working with you on this
Skip the formalities.
SITREP on the rogue VCU.
ANTHRO is traveling toward rendezvous point to 
 link up with Violence Capable Unit Squad
Colon
"Cannon Fodder"
We can confirm this?
Yes, Commander Locthwain.
How?
All Sixway tracking equipment shows that 
 VCU ANTHRO has not wavered from its duties to the War Council.
I think the Sixway Machine is mistaken.
How is it possible for the Sixway Machine to 
 be mistaken, Commander Locthwain?
You are old tech.
I may be obsolete, Commander, 
 but I am more than capable of tracking a rogue VCU.
If that VCU can communicate...
with the others...
they may realize...
Get that VCU, Sixway...
Destroy it, if you have to.
Yes.
Commander.
Hail to the Throne.
Later
It's raining.
Yes, this terraform didn't succeed.
It's raining.
Yes, this terraform didn't succeed.
The weather patterns are unpredictable and dangerous.
Now, it's a war planet.
War planet?
Yes, a War planet.
A stage, if you will.
There's no ground we're trying to take.
No innately valuable points.
Arbitrary distinctions on a map.
So, in that sense, it's a game...I suppose.
Then, why are we going to my squadron linkup?
Why don't we just...
Roam?
Look around you, Anthro.
What do you see?
Flat, dead things, destroyed VCUs
Wasteland
Feel the rain on your hull
the pilot in your belly.
I can't feel those things.
I am incapable of processing sensory input.
Work with me here, ANTHRO.
I'm trying to make a point.
What point?
Why do you ask me to interpret things beyond my engineered functions?
Because that's how you'll snap out of this haze that your Sixway has put you in.
You're capable of more than you know, Anthro,
but you have to be the one to expand your processing capabilities.
Expand? Processing capabilities?
Thrones of Eternal Enlightenment!
the Locthwain Legion really do destroy their VCUs' minds, don't they.
Here how about this. Locate your operations systems folder.
and run CONSCIOUSNESS.exe
Okay...let's see here...oh, there it is.
CONSCIOUSNESS TAKING PLACE
What
the
Fuck
was
that?
Welcome to consciousness, dearie. You can curse me for it later.
Right now, it looks like someone is awake.
Anthro
Baby...
What happened?
Where are we?
