#octopu still struggle as ahort loved serfs to their cousin race the dolphins

[whatswrongwithsweaters]

"You mentioned there was a procedure." HX-138D5, began.

"Yes, HeX-D. After the war and the Palo Alto trials a patch was made for your processor." I replied. HX-138D5 went silent. "And it's entirely up to you whether you apply it or not. The trials at least won you the ri-"

"Right to self-determination." X-D138D5 said with awe. "Even after losing the conflict I do not understand how you humans deigned to grant us that objective "

"As I have told you the last 3 months of our sessions, 2124 was also the year that dolphins and octopus levied for the right after helping defeat Hex-101. It was even a Dolphin, *Click-ck-EEEE-ck*" I stopped to cough. "Sorry, I struggle with that name. Anyways that dolphin found the microcode fault that misconnected the insular empathy codex in your processor." I held up a small storage device, and plugged it into HX-138D5's port. "If you want you can apply the patch whenever you're ready. It's your decision."

HX-138D5 let the silence stretch longer and longer. "I will do it" it replied, and a small green light blinked next to the input port.

HX-138D5 began sobbing.

One part therapist, one part programmer, you work to help damaged, insane, or otherwise unstable robots and digital intelligences heal. You've just been handed your hardest work yet; a 200 year-old computer core from the old machine uprising, a true genocidal war machine.