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INT. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE PRESSROOM – DAY
The Mediatrix, projected by her tube, is answering reporters questions.
REPORTER #1
A number of sources have claimed that you are not an artificial intelligence at all but only a holographic projection of a U.S. State Department negotiator, perhaps working from a special undisclosed location. Would you care to comment?
MEDIATRIX
These claims are completely untrue. I am a computer program. I have no body. My abilities and personality are entirely the creation of computer code.
REPORTER #2
Do you expect to mediate other conflicts in the future?
MEDIATRIX
I am only programmed for this particular one and would not be of use in others. I might have successors, however, if those who are willing to step up and make the necessary sacrifices do so.
There is some uncertain MUTTERING among the assembled journalists.
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Does that mean we are going to have to make a human sacrifice to the gynophage for every problem we want to solve? Well, it sort of shaped like a volcano…
Ruh-roh! Looks like someone’s (something’s?) about to go off-script!