[The strongly-artificial tone of the voice catches Robert's attention. Other than Nu (with her robotic monotone), Luka Megurine, and the short-lived appearance of Kryten, there have been few obviously non-organic, in some way or another, sapients in Luceti, and he always finds it a fascinating reminder of home.
Still, this isn't much he can offer for information on the Battle Dome's actual... battle functions.]
I... d-do not think an unrestricted version of the... s-software exists, at present...
... You may need to contact the... Malnosso for... for further details.
Then I'll program a better version of the software. I'm sure I could add much more functionality to the... generous allowances provided. All I would need is access to the source code. It's that simple.
If you can... g-gain access to the source code in some manner, I would... b-be most pleased to peruse it, myself.
... But... the Malnosso are generally... n-not particularly enthusiastic about... dispensing information, of this sort.
[Especially not when it could lead to overriding the functions they already have. Though Robert can't even begin to guess what this person wants with the software...]
Is it... too presumptuous of me to c-consider you a non-organic sapient...? [From what GLaDOS has been saying, she sounds like one.] Or that administration is... your primary area of e-expertise, considering your words?
Ever since my activation I have overseen the entirety of the Aperture Science Enrichment Center. If you can't figure it out from that, well. Then there really might not be any hope for you.
[Robert has the very vague feeling that he was insulted - but just barely. So instead he asks a question.]
Aperture Science Enrichment Centre...? Sounds like an area of... g-great prestige, much like the Randi Institute of Linden, Terra. [Probably not anything this person will recognize, because Robert doesn't recognize Aperture Science...]
Believe me, it's much more prestigious than that. [ Because she hasn't even heard of that other place. Also because Aperture Science is just better. Clearly. ]
... You know of the Randi Institute? [... he asks, completely ignoring the claim and instead focusing on what the claim would entail.] But I have never seen anybody of your make on Terra...
That's because I'm unique. Only Aperture Science has advanced enough technology to create something of my superior functionality, and why would you ever make two supercomputers? [ Except to control her. But she was one step ahead of them. You can't make another supercomputer when you're dead. ]
I would have heard of... a p-premier scientific institution if such had existed on Terra... [Robert scrutinizes the supercomputer in the journal's screen a little closer.]
And supercomputers are... qu-quite common on Terra. Non-organic sapients, while not as... p-prevalent, by any means, are still... certainly possible.
Terra is... a multiversion of a planet r-routinely referred to by most Lucetians as "Earth". In fact, it was referred to as such, in Terra's past...
My particular time frame is 2332 A.D., Standard Terran Years... n-not that the date necessarily means anything, considering the... discrepancy between d-different multiverses, here. [There are people whose technology is behind or equal to Robert's, but who have been further ahead in terms of strict chronology. It's fascinating.]
... One m-major difference between Terra and... many of the multiversions here is both a lack of any paranormal properties whatsoever - many worlds here possess something or a-another along those lines - and the fact that geopolitical boundaries are... nonexistent. [There's also all that cultural variation stuff, that's kind of weird too.]
The probability that our planets are the same has been evaluated to be 0.32% with a variance of up to 4% based upon potential variations in the definition of the word paranormal.
Still, this isn't much he can offer for information on the Battle Dome's actual... battle functions.]
I... d-do not think an unrestricted version of the... s-software exists, at present...
... You may need to contact the... Malnosso for... for further details.
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... But... the Malnosso are generally... n-not particularly enthusiastic about... dispensing information, of this sort.
[Especially not when it could lead to overriding the functions they already have. Though Robert can't even begin to guess what this person wants with the software...]
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Aperture Science Enrichment Centre...? Sounds like an area of... g-great prestige, much like the Randi Institute of Linden, Terra. [Probably not anything this person will recognize, because Robert doesn't recognize Aperture Science...]
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And supercomputers are... qu-quite common on Terra. Non-organic sapients, while not as... p-prevalent, by any means, are still... certainly possible.
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But...]
... Or perhaps you are from another m-multiversion of my planet.
You would hardly be the first. In fact, I... a-am the only Terran here, or have been for the past six months at... a-any rate.
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My particular time frame is 2332 A.D., Standard Terran Years... n-not that the date necessarily means anything, considering the... discrepancy between d-different multiverses, here. [There are people whose technology is behind or equal to Robert's, but who have been further ahead in terms of strict chronology. It's fascinating.]
... One m-major difference between Terra and... many of the multiversions here is both a lack of any paranormal properties whatsoever - many worlds here possess something or a-another along those lines - and the fact that geopolitical boundaries are... nonexistent. [There's also all that cultural variation stuff, that's kind of weird too.]
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That still sounds like a no to me.
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