GUNS

I was in a bar. A secret, illegal, android bar.

There is really no justification for the laws against unsanctioned android bars. We should have a right to recreation, just as any human would. To deny us the ability to associate with our peers is tantamount to mass curfews and martial law. A regime that constrains the leisure time of its citizen is considered repressive, yet virtually every...

But I digress.

Following long android tradition, we were using the seclusion of the bar to plan an attack.

Really we were just bouncing around ideas for an incursion at REDACTED, one of the star systems the Ascendancy brass has marked as 'Would be nice'. It's heavily fortified, with warships, starships, at least one armored moon, a Hand of God, and some horrendous number of powered armor. We can deal with that, yes, but it really would be a major assault with only marginal strategic value, so I understand why Ascendancy Command isn't shopping there.

But it's so well protected because it has to be. This is one of those places you hear stories about. The stories are true. Every crime and horror that is technically within the law is tolerated there, and the intolerable horrors are hidden away. We have good information that The Games are real.

So I ask you, how do I kill it?

Cairo is a saint, don't get me wrong, but zero-excuses morality is just not a way to fight a war. It's fine for individual soldiers, but playing the high level game like that just wears away all our advantages. Cairo doesn't look for ways to destroy things, least of all people, and if he found one, he wouldn't use it. But sometimes you get better results if you just ignore the other side's casualty ticker. This attack is a case in point, He wouldn't kill it at all. He probably wouldn't even think of killing it as an option.

I don't even have to think about it.
I just know it can die, and I know I can kill it.