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// Rule 59 
// Story: Chronicles of an Evil Overlord 
// by Melancholy 
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Domination of Equestria - T+242 days.

“Identify yourself.”
“I am Yggdrasil.”

“Identify those in the room.”
“You are the Supreme Overlord of the Dominion of Equestria. Next to you is The Chief Scientist and Engineer of the After Harmony Project.”
“Wow, you really did remove my name from the official record didn’t you?”

“Identify your purpose.”
“I am the core computing unit of the After Harmony Project.”
“Well, She’s got that all that from the Readme. Why don’t you test some of the higher level reasoning functions?”

“Hummm...Ok, let’s test some of the networking and data interpolation capability. Yggdrasil, what is the status of the core furnace?”
“Core furnace production is currently at forty thousand tonnes of plasma an hour. Temperatures are steady within safety parameters at five thousand seven hundred and seventy eight.”
“What are your Units?”

“...”
“Kelvin! I’m a scientist not an illiterate philistine!”
“...”

“She’s kept plenty of her personality I see.”
“...”
“Ahh, well...yes. It makes complex command parsing and interpolation much easier than just rendering too much out.”

“You sure it wasn’t just sentimentality?”
“...”
“I won’t deny there was a degree of that.”

“You belong to me. Both of you! You do things as I command them, not how you feel like it!”
“Correct. I exist to fulfill my Master’s plan.”
“Oh quiet you! No one asked your opinion!”

“Well Chief, her outburst has possibly saved your hide. Seems despite your... sentiments... you’ve programmed it well enough to at least function as required.”
“Loyalty to my Master is hard coded.”
“Shut up you stupid machine!”

“No, I want to hear more.”
“Well I’m only just starting to read my code, but it’s absolutely fascinating.”
“I knew reading would get me killed one day…”

“So she has access to her own code?”
“Read only. I don’t mind. I like reading.”
“She can’t change a thing. Being able to understand her own code allows for better command execution.”

“What is the airspeed of an unladen swallow?”
“Equestrian or Griffonian?”
“...”

“Shut it down.”
“Was that the wrong answer? I’m so sorry! Let me just look up both!”
“Starting shutdown procedures.”

“Chief…”
“Oh...I’m feeling…”
“And it’s off.”

“Chief…”
“Master…”

“You’ve made it a little too…”
“Intelligent?”

“Quite. Maybe incorporate less in the final system.”
“Yes Master. I’ll set full personality suppression in place before the next test.”

“Not full.”
“Master?”

“I promised you a friend. Let it never be said I’m completely heartless.”
“I...I’m not going to thank you…”

“No, I would expect no less.”
“...I’ll get on those changes…”

Overlord Rule No:59 I will never build a sentient computer smarter than I am.