Tex just peers for a long moment at the explanation. "...Okay," she finally says after the pause. "So each is like a brain cell or something, making a whole brain?"

She snorts at the question. "There's no way in hell I'm being subservient, especially to Grif or Doc. And it kinda depends on if you're in the military or not, where I come from. That's where most of them are-the project I was in? Paired up AIs and humans together. Gave us an edge-the AIs were supposed to complement us."