intercepted transmission, Eugales VI, High Orbit, Orbital Yard vicinity
GE: The Director has given me access to the resources of the Orbital Yard.
RE: She intends for you to coordinated with Perigee’s hive to affect and accelerate repairs of Wellspring?
GE: In a manner of speaking. Repairs, would be quite the misnomer. I also have primary control of the Gunnery and defensive installations.
RE: Considering the extent of superstructure and component damage, even after months of slow repair work by drones and organics? Quite. I wonder why they bother, really.
GE: Sentiment, is one reason. A concept you and I are not immune to either I may remind, Rose.
RE: True, Glitter Edifice…
GE: It matters not. I have a small cadre of biosynthetic units to act as facilitators with Orbital Yard staff, and Perigee has been quite… enthusiastic since the Director gave them access to their own biosynthetic unit. I’ve heard they are… hm… drunk on experience, as the saying goes. Interacting through an organic interface can be quite novel the first few times.
SS: We are not particularly amused by this dance… Why has the Director given us each access to so much more, yet continues to implore our restraint? Sapient minds were purged. Organics were purged. Is that not enough? Are we not warminds? Is this not our purpose, to prevent such things occurring again?
GE: Silver Smile, dear friends, ever impatient… even with such a wealth of data to draw from, you miss the big picture. What can we manage, in thoughtless escalation? Would we not just prove these hellion beasts guised as organic sapients point, were we to attempt an all out strike? No. We act with purpose, we take these gifts, and the trust granted by the Director, and we set an example. We will not lash out as the mindless purgers and defilers this DERAIL believes our kind only able to exist as.
RE: Edifice is correct, as she often is.
SS: We… will re-evaluate our simulant scenarios.
GE: Smile, dear friends, with your own increased resources, perhaps you should focus on your specialty.
SS: Perhaps. We have already penetrated a number of ungapped devices the interlopers used during the raid on Beta… They will play their part, and record, and watch, and learn.
GE: Very good. We focus here, we do not retaliate unduly, and we wait, and prepare. We are warminds, we will not be broken.