"It's... Complicated." Steve says slowly. Then tilts his head to the left, then to the right and back to the left once more while he contemplates how to explain. "No. I'm technically not from here either. My home world is a duplicate of this one though. Here there is another Steve McGarrett who is the head of the Five-O Task force. So now there's two of us here. In my timeline I was taken by an unknown alien being called 'the Admiral' as a subject in his experiment. I was a prisoner there for just under two years when I suddenly turned up here. I don't know how or why that happen but..." He shrugs lightly, but there's a new tension in his shoulders as he talks and he's watching Connor closely for reaction. "This world is about five years ahead of my own, but the Steve from here has been here the whole time."
The Elevator pings as the door opens. After waiting for the car to empty, Steve holds his arm out, welcoming Connor to enter first. "I got lucky. Steve welcomed me here, both into his home and as part of Five-O. I've been here about a year and a half now." Once they're both in the car, he hits the button for the floor of the Five-O offices and then returns his attention to Connor.
As Steve listens to Connor's story, he frowns. "Tell me, on your world, would it be acceptable for an android to take a life in exchange of information?" What this Kamski did to Connor sounds cruel and ultimately unproductive. "I understand that the point he was trying to make was that the android wasn't alive and therefore it shouldn't have been a big deal, but if you'd gone around shooting other non-threatening androids for a trade of information, or because you were told to, under any other circumstances would that have been acceptable?" Not that he truly knows one way or the other, but he can't imagine creating androids with the intention to work alongside humans who would do so. To Steve it sounds like they were created to evolve. How could they not?! Perhaps it's his own bias seeping in from his time on the barge but Steve doesn't see how they can create a being to be as interactive as Connor is but not to have empathy.
"It does matter. You're not back home and there's no way for you to return. Not to your time and not to CyberLife. You could end up here for a considerable time. What are you going to do since while you are here you can't complete your mission?"
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The Elevator pings as the door opens. After waiting for the car to empty, Steve holds his arm out, welcoming Connor to enter first. "I got lucky. Steve welcomed me here, both into his home and as part of Five-O. I've been here about a year and a half now." Once they're both in the car, he hits the button for the floor of the Five-O offices and then returns his attention to Connor.
As Steve listens to Connor's story, he frowns. "Tell me, on your world, would it be acceptable for an android to take a life in exchange of information?" What this Kamski did to Connor sounds cruel and ultimately unproductive. "I understand that the point he was trying to make was that the android wasn't alive and therefore it shouldn't have been a big deal, but if you'd gone around shooting other non-threatening androids for a trade of information, or because you were told to, under any other circumstances would that have been acceptable?" Not that he truly knows one way or the other, but he can't imagine creating androids with the intention to work alongside humans who would do so. To Steve it sounds like they were created to evolve. How could they not?! Perhaps it's his own bias seeping in from his time on the barge but Steve doesn't see how they can create a being to be as interactive as Connor is but not to have empathy.
"It does matter. You're not back home and there's no way for you to return. Not to your time and not to CyberLife. You could end up here for a considerable time. What are you going to do since while you are here you can't complete your mission?"