ShakeshaBererund
Constable-Unknown shook his head. "Negative: A station is capable of holding hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people. Not to mention all three of /us/ are connected to it. At least, until we pull our coreships from the local holding space in the 5th layer - it's better than if we hosted it in the 6th layer, we discovered. That holding dimension is connected to the station - while core functionality is at maximum efficiency when all three classes of Core-AI are linked to it, if the station is destroyed, the holding space is... deleted. And us with it."
"It is comparable to death. It is not easy to 'kill' a Core-AI, but having your Coreship erased from existence will do the deed. Okay, Zero-Quad, you should be in optimal condition now."
"RECAPITULATION: THE METHOD YOU USED TO DELETE YOUR PAINFUL MEMORY HAS ALSO MADE A TEMPORARY TEAR IN THE HOLDING DIMENSION - NEAR MY CORESHIP, NO LESS. A COMPRESSED ELECTROMAGNETIC SHOCK HIT MY CORESHIP AND DISRUPTED SOME OF MY SYSTEMS - YOU HAD HURT ME IN THE PROCESS. ASSURANCE: I AM OKAY NOW, THANKS TO COBRA-COMPOSITE, SO NO APOLOGY IS NECESSARY."
"Unfortunately, should you have another... 'event...' like that, I can not guarantee the integrity of the station will hold. Reminder: If the station is destroyed, we ALL die. Even us Core AIs."
