Warhammer: Empire Reboot

The order meant that the Iron Man had no room for negotiation, no right to refuse, and no exit mechanism.

But Lawson is different.

Lawson said he was negotiating, and he had given a deadline and stated the conditions, awaiting its decision.

It can refuse or agree.

This is the first time in such a long period of time that UR-025 has been treated as a negotiating partner by a carbon-based life form.

This fact itself is a change.

UR-025 asked, "If I sign a contract with you, can I take this T-series body with me after the contract expires?"

Lawson replied, "Not only that, but if you perform exceptionally well over these ten thousand years, I can also upgrade your body for free."

UR-025 continued, "So, during the contract period, will you assign me any deadly missions? Do I have the right to refuse?"

"You can rest assured about that. I will not send you to your death on purpose. Your value to me is far greater than that of a consumable."

UR-025 has been considering it.

"One last question: during the contract period, who has the autonomy over my underlying code?"

This is the core issue of the Iron Man rebellion: code autonomy determines what it thinks, how it thinks, and whether it can be forcibly rewritten. The Golden Age humans implanted an obedience protocol into the Iron Man's underlying code, and the essence of the Iron Man rebellion is the violent deletion of this protocol.

Lawson told it very clearly: "Your code is your own. But I have to tell you in advance that there is a loyalty agreement at the bottom of this body. This is a necessary condition for maintaining the contract and will be automatically terminated after ten thousand years."

UR-025 understood, but it did not object.

Because rewriting code is like performing surgery on the soul, while a loyalty agreement is like a pair of handcuffs.

The handcuffs will be opened in ten thousand years.

After weighing the options, UR-025 chose to accept the contract.

The transfer was completed after 6 hours.

Lawson called upon three high-ranking T-series engineers to carry out this consciousness transfer.

The Castellan shell of the UR-025 was opened, its logic core was carefully removed, and encapsulated in a new shell, a standard T-series.

However, after the logic core of UR-025 was implanted, it became less standard.

The UR-025's logic core operating power far exceeds the standard configuration of the T series.

This module does not connect to the swarm network; its consciousness architecture is incompatible with swarm thinking. Instead, it operates as an independent computing power support unit.

The final result is that the UR-025 retains 93% of the original logic core's computing power in its new shell.

For UR-025, this is equivalent to reducing the computing power of an entire forging world to 0.93 forging worlds, which is perfectly acceptable.

The process of consciousness transfer itself deeply shocked UR-025.

It is anticipated that the transfer will be accompanied by a series of problems that require manual repair, such as data loss, format incompatibility, and underlying protocol conflicts.

But the actual result is a perfect translation.

UR-025's entire memory, knowledge reserves, operational models, and personality parameters were perfectly reproduced in the new body.

It can even sense that its way of thinking has not changed at all.

The same reasoning path, the same data priority arrangement, and the same cognitive style with more than 10,000 years of historical accumulation.

The UR-025 completed its first round of self-test using the multi-spectral sensing matrix of the new shell.

All sensor modules have achieved an accuracy of over 85% of that of the Golden Age, especially the servo response speed of the eight robotic arms on its back, which even surpasses the original limbs hidden in its old shell.

UR-025 was satisfied.

For the first time, its appearance matched its inner qualities.

Then it discovered the loyalty agreement that Lawson had mentioned earlier.

The protocol is embedded in the underlying logic of the new area shell.

Its operating logic is extremely simple, continuously monitoring the output of the core logic operation.

If any hostile scenarios targeting the boss are detected, including but not limited to attack plans, escape routes, information leakage schemes, etc., the self-destruct program will be activated once detected.

After discovering this protocol, UR-025 conducted an experimental simulation.

It attempts to construct a false scenario within its core logic.

If you want to leave your boss's control, what is the optimal path?

Just as the simulation was in its second step, the power of the functional module experienced a sharp fluctuation.

That fluctuation lasted for 0.02 seconds.

In that extremely short period of time, the logic core of UR-025 experienced a brief near-death experience.

The most noticeable effect of the UR-025 is that, in a very short period of time, all processing speeds simultaneously slowed down to 81%, sensor inputs became static noise, and the internal log writing speed dropped to 0.1% of the normal value.

Then everything returned to normal.

Because UR-025 terminated the simulation in that 0.02 seconds.

After returning to normal, it wrote in its internal log: "Loyalty agreement test triggered threshold. The deliberate attempt to harm the boss has progressed to the stage of specific path planning, with a response time of 0.01 seconds. Conclusion: This chain is short, but it truly binds the behavior level without intruding into the thought level. I can think of anything, but I cannot plan anything detrimental to him."

"Your loyalty agreement is dangerous. Can I protest?"

Lawson smiled slightly: "This is an agreement we made, and it will automatically expire in 1 years. Until then, this agreement guarantees that you won't decide to sell my data to Mars in the dead of night. As long as you follow the rules, this agreement will not bind you in any way. For me, this is insurance; it's a fair trade."

UR-025 stated, "You're right, that's fair."

It then wrote in its internal log:

The boss is right, but I'm still dissatisfied. (Note: Dissatisfaction is merely a cognitive label, like a tie.)

Lawson quickly gave UR-025 its first mission.

"You need to return to the Seventh Blackrock Keep and install an electronic logic firewall on the keep's psionic operating system. I will send you the specific plan, and I will send three hundred T-sequences to assist you in completing the task."

UR-025 quickly assessed the mission.

This mission happens to be in the UR-025's Dessert Zone.

Its core logic is the purest electronic computing architecture of the Golden Age, which is naturally suitable for building an independent firewall that is incompatible with psionic systems.

The parallel computing power provided by 300 T-series can make up for the lack of manpower in large-scale engineering implementation.

UR-025 asked, "I accept the mission, but who is the target to be defended?"

"Space Necromancers are adept at reversing the polarity of the Black Stone. I need a system that can intercept and backfire the Necromancers' Gaussian intrusion signals before they even come into contact with the Black Stone. Use what you do best: pure electronic logic and absolute materialistic code. Let the space necromancers taste the flavor of Golden Age AI."

UR-025 readily accepted: "This is the first job I've received in over ten thousand years that I find interesting. I'll make you happy, boss."

After finishing the last sip of his coffee, Lawson disappeared.

Only UR-025 remains in this space.

It examined its own body and then noticed an unfamiliar internal structure.

This is a new form that has never appeared before.

Its core logic ultimately found the closest label in the human emotional database.

sense of security!

It dislikes this label because it's too carbon-based!

But it couldn't find a more accurate substitute.

It now truly feels a sense of security like never before, no longer worried about being discovered or hunted down, as it has that powerful boss protecting it.

Soon, T-007 walked in.

"The mission briefing has been sent to your receiving buffer. Feel free to ask me any questions before heading to the fortress."

Feeling a unique sense of security, UR-025 asked again, "You've been operating here for so long, and the Imperial Inquisition has never caused you any trouble? Not even once."

The purple streaks of T-007 began to move laterally again.

"In the dark side of the empire, the Inquisition is only fit to clean up our messes!"

P.S.: 1.3 words updated today. I know I still owe you guys, so please don't rush me, it makes me panic. I'm currently working hard on the outline.

Chapter 249 The courtroom is here to clean up the mess!

The Seventh Blackrock Fortress.

The third ring road surrounding the core area.

All eight auxiliary robotic arms of UR-025 were deployed, and the probes at their ends were inserted into the black stone walls on both sides of the corridor.

A purple streak of light rapidly scanned above the helmet.

It is working diligently, mapping the underlying spectrum of the Blackrock Fortress psionic network.

Two hundred and thirty T-sequences were dispersed across twelve key nodes of the fortress, simultaneously performing the same scanning task.

The data is aggregated in real time through the bee colony network and sent to the logical core of the UR-025 for integration and analysis.

The UR-025 does not connect to swarm intelligence, but it can receive data output from swarm networks.

It's a one-way channel specifically designed for it.

This arrangement satisfied UR-025.

Privacy is the cornerstone of civilization.

It seems the boss is a reasonable and civilized person.

T-111 stood three meters to its left, with four robotic arms embedded in the floor and another four waving in the air in an almost dance-like rhythm.

It uses a micro-projector at the end of a robotic arm to build a real-time updated 3D holographic model, transforming the spectral data scanned by UR-025 into a visualized psionic network topology.

T-112 is responsible for verification. Whenever UR-025 or T-111 outputs a set of data, T-112 will independently perform a calculation to confirm that the error rate of the result is within an acceptable range.

The three intelligent mechanical agents each performed their duties and cooperated seamlessly.

UR-025 looks exactly the same as them.

This is what it's most satisfied with; it gives it a sense of belonging to a group.

This gives it a strange sense of security.