// You don't sound very upset about it. Their whistling audio turns downright sardonic on that remark. Yeah, he just said people come back intact when they die so they can see why Maximilien isn't bothered by gratuitous killing, but if suffering is what the captain wants it'd be less effective for someone to go around killing people because they're bored or mildly annoyed or curious than if the killer doesn't want to be doing it and is tormented by the painful memories it reminds them of as soon as they realise what they've done. Unless it's a quantity-over-quality thing where if you get enough victims it adds up to the same value. They're not sure exactly what the captain's looking for.

// Nice to meet you, they say, completing the social ritual and logging that name in their memory. Hey, wait a minute, Maximilien's one of the people the cyborg construct said it didn't like. It's not hard to guess why; the two artificial beings have opposite attitudes in virtually every way they've observed.

Bastion groans electronically and flips the palm of their manipulator arm upwards. They're giving it a genuine analysis, but they wish they didn't have to.

// I think I'm unlikely to begin firing without provocation, they say, thinking of the effort they've put into desensitising themself to gunshot-like sounds nearby, bulky humanoid shapes, and broken machines. // I'm concerned that I'd react to a genuine threat, fail to disengage afterwards, and kill uninvolved people I misidentified as enemies.