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Updated last paragraph to correct description of Baird reconnecting Mo Ye to the ship's systems and needing to die to circumvent the three laws. Source: Mo Ye stating her restriction to the laws at the end despite her reconstitution.
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Baird is awoken again by Mo Ye, who leads him to a medical cabinet containing "[[Rumbledrug]]s", known to be used by [[Insurrectionist]]s when fighting [[SPARTAN-II Program|SPARTANs]]. It is known as a suicide drug, slowly destroying the body, but temporarily making it totally impervious to pain and capable of amazing feats of strength. Using these drugs, Baird, with about an hour to live before the medicines kill him, makes his way to the control room, where he encounters more of the boarding party, including the leader, who is same the Sangheili who had stabbed him. Baird drops his weapons and says he will give them the coordinates of [[Earth]] if they let him escape. As the Covenant begin to raise their weapons at him, the Sangheili roars at them to stop and communicates with the Huragok onboard. The Sangheili then agrees to let Baird do what he asked to do. | Baird is awoken again by Mo Ye, who leads him to a medical cabinet containing "[[Rumbledrug]]s", known to be used by [[Insurrectionist]]s when fighting [[SPARTAN-II Program|SPARTANs]]. It is known as a suicide drug, slowly destroying the body, but temporarily making it totally impervious to pain and capable of amazing feats of strength. Using these drugs, Baird, with about an hour to live before the medicines kill him, makes his way to the control room, where he encounters more of the boarding party, including the leader, who is same the Sangheili who had stabbed him. Baird drops his weapons and says he will give them the coordinates of [[Earth]] if they let him escape. As the Covenant begin to raise their weapons at him, the Sangheili roars at them to stop and communicates with the Huragok onboard. The Sangheili then agrees to let Baird do what he asked to do. | ||
Instead of giving the coordinates to the boarding party, Baird reconnects Mo Ye to the ship's systems. Despite the AI's restored access to the ship, she notifies him that she still cannot circumvent Asimov's First Law in her current state. Baird then punches the Sangheili as hard as he can, breaking his hand and the alien's jaw. He begins to taunt the Sangheili, who responds by beheading Baird with its energy sword. With no humans left alive onboard the ship, Mo Ye is no longer bound by Asimov's Three Laws and proceeds to self-destruct the ship. After initiating a fake countdown, causing the Sangheili commander to order a retreat, Mo Ye tells him that there is no need for any countdown whatsoever. She promptly detonates the destroyer's nuclear charges, destroying the entire ship. The inferno also engulfs the Covenant ships that had ambushed the destroyer, leaving only debris in its wake. | |||
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