"Statement: The energy weapon was a handheld device. It released one projectile upwards, which then scattered to strike within a wide radius of the hostile. The wounds did not cauterize as a normal blaster rifle or pistol wound would have." Which was more effective, really. Well-made blasters could punch holes in heavy armor, but anything organic inside didn't bleed much. A burnt hole through a meatbag generally did the trick anyway, in his experience.

"Affirmative: You have been fortunate. Your coordination is abysmal. Concession: I will admit that I was unsure of how to breathe for several minutes before the semi-unconscious directives in this meatbag body began to assert themselves. And I have found how to hack this meatbag body's neural processing unit, so that certain functions are re-prioritized for greater efficiency. Query: Have you been able to access such subsystems, or are your meatbag programs incompatible with that function? If you could, then maybe you would be able to overwrite your old locomotive protocols." It was so simple. You just went in and modified what programs were not locked. It could cause a certain amount of system instability, but he had found methods of controlling that.