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much attention to.
Partway through the second day things sped up when the technicians finished
wiring him back up and the engineers took over to weld his joints and finish
sealing him.
Someone entered his line of sight. "Okay Bishop, gimme a low pressure
coolant test... yep, good... go to high pressure... no leaks, everythings
sealed. Okay, relax. I'll laz-seal the skin then you're finished. Someone did
quite a job on you, didn't they?"
"Not a person, a 30 foot unclassified organism", Bishop corrected the
engineer.
The engineer grinned. "You'd fool anyone who didn't know you were synthetic.
It's a pity your model only have circumstantial humour though. If I'd been in
charge it'd be different, but I suppose the military wouldn't approve. Thats
why I chose engineering instead of programming."
"My model?"
"Oh, you don't know of course. You've been superceded by the 600. They're
brilliant. You're programmed to be an individual, but they decide on their
own little habits. We play 'spot the synthetic' with a volunteer and a 600,
and fail statistically. I didn't know they c
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