[9S doesn't know if they could be salvaged and repaired the way he seems to have been. Some of the others were obliterated entirely and for that reason he has his doubts it's possible. But he wants to believe that 4S has survived. He'd gotten quite far even without a pod and seemed capable and experienced, and joining up with the Resistance was a safe decision.
In the end he doesn't know his fellow Scanner's fate, but other than him and the units who took the E-drug in the desert, he doesn't know the status of any others]
There was a large-scale operation and things didn't go favorably.
[It's the easiest way for him to explain something he imagines to be grim. But then, Sophie may well have outlived a great number of humanoids for all that he knows. The subject, he thinks, would never be something he'd want to be numbed to however. And her philosophy doesn't seem to suggest that she has]
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[9S doesn't know if they could be salvaged and repaired the way he seems to have been. Some of the others were obliterated entirely and for that reason he has his doubts it's possible. But he wants to believe that 4S has survived. He'd gotten quite far even without a pod and seemed capable and experienced, and joining up with the Resistance was a safe decision.
In the end he doesn't know his fellow Scanner's fate, but other than him and the units who took the E-drug in the desert, he doesn't know the status of any others]
There was a large-scale operation and things didn't go favorably.
[It's the easiest way for him to explain something he imagines to be grim. But then, Sophie may well have outlived a great number of humanoids for all that he knows. The subject, he thinks, would never be something he'd want to be numbed to however. And her philosophy doesn't seem to suggest that she has]