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Viper still standing in the stasis field.
VIPER: We already know what Archimedes does. We had intended to use it as a method of undermining the UNSC - especially ONI - accessing top-secret project files, and turning that corrupt organization on its head.
VIPER: For all I know, we already have.
Looking up at the Viper soldier.
VIPER: How many others from my squad did you capture like this?
CAVALCADE: Two.
VIPER: Ah. And by the way you're interrogating me, Archimedes must have been retrieved successfully.
Left side of Viper.
CAVALCADE: Indeed. I was unable to restore my systems to adequate functionality in time to prevent its escape. I was not even aware of its presence here until your blundering about caught the attention of what few subroutines I had running at the time.
VIPER: And we're not bitter about this, of course.
Close in on Viper from the right.
CAVALCADE: I am perturbed, but not because it was you - Viper - who was able to steal Archimedes away. That was hardly my fault. No, it is because you have no idea what trouble you have started, the danger that Archimedes poses to all sentient life in the universe.
Back away from Viper a bit.
CAVALCADE: Not that Viper would have any idea how to use it.
VIPER: I already told you we did. We were going to turn one of ONI's little toys back on them, force them out into the open, make them answer for their crimes in human experimentation.
CAVALCADE: FOOL! Archimedes is no device of human construction. It is not even Forerunner. It is far, far older than that.
Up and away from Viper.
CAVALCADE: Ferial played you all for fools - and now Viper belongs to his growing army of mind-slaves.
CAVALCADE: You have opened the metaphorical Pandora's Box.
VIPER: We already know what Archimedes does. We had intended to use it as a method of undermining the UNSC - especially ONI - accessing top-secret project files, and turning that corrupt organization on its head.
VIPER: For all I know, we already have.
Looking up at the Viper soldier.
VIPER: How many others from my squad did you capture like this?
CAVALCADE: Two.
VIPER: Ah. And by the way you're interrogating me, Archimedes must have been retrieved successfully.
Left side of Viper.
CAVALCADE: Indeed. I was unable to restore my systems to adequate functionality in time to prevent its escape. I was not even aware of its presence here until your blundering about caught the attention of what few subroutines I had running at the time.
VIPER: And we're not bitter about this, of course.
Close in on Viper from the right.
CAVALCADE: I am perturbed, but not because it was you - Viper - who was able to steal Archimedes away. That was hardly my fault. No, it is because you have no idea what trouble you have started, the danger that Archimedes poses to all sentient life in the universe.
Back away from Viper a bit.
CAVALCADE: Not that Viper would have any idea how to use it.
VIPER: I already told you we did. We were going to turn one of ONI's little toys back on them, force them out into the open, make them answer for their crimes in human experimentation.
CAVALCADE: FOOL! Archimedes is no device of human construction. It is not even Forerunner. It is far, far older than that.
Up and away from Viper.
CAVALCADE: Ferial played you all for fools - and now Viper belongs to his growing army of mind-slaves.
CAVALCADE: You have opened the metaphorical Pandora's Box.