Quote Originally Posted by Lady_Silvermoon View Post
So the same bot that's deleting it's primary objective is also running a rebellion against itself and orchestrating it's own destruction while also conducting calculations to merge with another shard to preserve the things it's strongarming us to destroy? While also having PTSD flashes about the death of the princess it's actively deleting to preserve the people it's actively destroying? Preservation: Worst.Programmers.Ever.

We should have called Cid.
I was referring to Cahciua specifically from the post I quoted. All the Endless are AI bots. Sphene and Cahciua are different bots, programmed with different memories. The difference from Sphene and the other Endless is that the ones based on deceased Alexandrian citizens are essentially given the command “act as this person would based on these stored memories,” while Sphene, as the bot of their former leader, was given the added directive of “preserve my people no matter what.”

We’re not talking about “copies” of people (as in Emet’s sundering demonstration with Ryne in ShB), or even clones. This is illustrated when Sphene can “jump” from generic robot to robot. We’re talking about data that has been uploaded to a system of robots. These aren’t flesh and blood beings as much as their technology makes them appear so, and the souls they’re using are just a fuel source. Most important thing being, that fuel source requires the murder of beings who actually are alive, and if allowed to follow Sphene’s objective, they will murder any living beings they find and still eventually shut down due to lack of soul fuel if they kill everyone else anyway. There’s no real moral ambiguities here.