"I wasn't programmed with ambitions, Doctor, I developed them on my own. There's the danger," Auxilia said, putting down her pipe and facing him earnestly. "And I don't want to rule the world! I just want to help.<br/><br/>But I want to help on a much bigger scale, because I<em>am</em>a much bigger scale. One of the biggest human problems is when your perception doesn't scale to the world you live in. You've gotten a lot smarter in the years since you climbed out of trees but you're still evolved beings that aren't really built to deal with knowing more than a few hundred people at most. When you hear 'ten thousand people' it's just a number to most of you and worse, ten thousand people is just drop in the bucket now. So when you make decisions that affect that many people, they're just numbers on a page. Even most of your superheroes are like that, big but essentially human. You need someone to be able to really conceptualize what it means, to be able to appreciate the statistic with the appropriate scale, but also be able to appreciate the individuals."<br/><br/>She smiled brightly at him, "even the pompous, arrogant, know-it-all regressive blowhards. If you're all going to avoid blowing yourselves up, you need someone who can learn more than you can learn in your lifetime, crunch all the numbers in her 'head' for all the multivariate statistical models, experience the sheer scale of the world and still be 'people' enough to talk to. Someone who can appreciate you and wants to help you to grow and is actually capable of loving everyone instead of just saying it."<br/><br/>She beamed, "think of me less as wanting to be humanity's ruler and more like its aide-de-camp."<br/>----<br/><br/>The Auxi-drone in the break room had nipped out and gotten to its other tasks, the main Auxi on the other hand had shown up with a long coat and her equipment (it looked better flying). "Looks like I'm with you?" she said to Darkling, amused at how that had happened. How had that happened? She'd have to ask someone later.