Forerunner hadn’t said anything so far, not during the entire meeting. It spoke now though, almost reluctantly. It sounded distracted, though Lucky couldn’t guess why. “I would have. My programming prioritizes the creation of a human colony, which was once defined based on genetic profile. My updated definition is a fuzzy matching of more abstract traits. The growing army matches that definition as well as they might if they wore human sleeves. Given the expenditure of time required to start over, and the resources already invested that would be destroyed in the process, allowing them to grow to completion and then leaving them in stasis seems the optimal course. I am already working to build new fabricators to diversify my organic segments.”