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"... you're telling me that the first result of us making contact and starting a cultural exchange is that the locals used my likeness for a 'quadruple facepalm' meme?"
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Artificial Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence are not the same thing. AIs, much like in real life, are not conscious or sapient and are more like really advanced scripts. ACs - like Quantum - on the other hand, are properly sapient persons, but their functioning relies on a specific hardware setup as much as on code, so they cannot upload themselves to other computers.
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I ship Sir General and Grumpy McFourarm.
Zane had to throw all 4 hands up to indicate enough frustration
"... you're telling me that the first result of us making contact and starting a cultural exchange is that the locals used my likeness for a 'quadruple facepalm' meme?"
Yes, yes they did and unlike back home. You won't make any credits off of it.
They're going to like the "apart from her and one missing guy, everyone's dead" part a lot less ...
Translating to avoid major conflict! The Major here continues to surprisingly be incredibly reasonable.
Uh, nope, Quantum made translators about a hundred pages ago.