"With my existing power cell, I can operate continuously for another one-hundred-twenty years." The Terminator replies. "No recharging is necessary." No need to slow down, or stop. It can simply keep going, for as long as is required.
It periodically stops at set intervals in the patrol, to scan the horizon for any incoming threats. It has no weapons with which to engage any if they were to appear, but it can at least serve as an early warning and allow time to prepare. Even a few seconds could be crucial.
It steps back from one such scan and resumes walking as RPK-16 makes her next query. "Yes." It answers. "Working with the Corsairs offers the greatest probability that I will be able to return to my own space/time and continue with my primary mission. I will follow orders I am given, so long as they do not contradict any of my core mission parameters."
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It periodically stops at set intervals in the patrol, to scan the horizon for any incoming threats. It has no weapons with which to engage any if they were to appear, but it can at least serve as an early warning and allow time to prepare. Even a few seconds could be crucial.
It steps back from one such scan and resumes walking as RPK-16 makes her next query. "Yes." It answers. "Working with the Corsairs offers the greatest probability that I will be able to return to my own space/time and continue with my primary mission. I will follow orders I am given, so long as they do not contradict any of my core mission parameters."