Hi there! I play Irene, and I’m gonna try and give my thoughts about this. First, I’m gonna go over my perspective of things. It’s late into a three hour round on Solaris Ridge, where both the marine and xeno forces are heavily depleted. I went into the Eastern caves since from what I remember, the Captain had announced for people to rally on the sensor tower with the corrupted queen, however I don’t remember if that announcement was made before or after I entered caves. I soon found myself with a few marines, I don’t know the exact number, but I distinctly remember the Foxtrot Leader, Foxtrot Spotter, and Intel Officer, who I stuck with because I thought they could use somebody with medical skill and supplies. I don’t remember what the plan exactly was, and I don’t know if it was ever said out loud, but I believe they were attempting some sort of flank, since we were hanging around places with minimal xeno presence. Again, xenos were on the backfoot after losing many of theirs to the corrupted xenomorphs that were helping us, so I thought it wouldn’t be a terrible idea to tag along.
We make our way South, closer to the hive, at which point the location to me was unknown and I didn’t know if anybody else in the group knew that either. The marines I’m with engage a few xenos and fight for a little bit, where I try and stand further away to not get injured (doesn’t stop a defender from running up and smacking me). I then see through binoculars that we’re literally right next to the hive’s doors, and I see way more xenos than I thought there were. At this point I’d like to call out to the marines I’m with that we should retreat, however, when trying to get close to speak to the marines, they either go out of earshot, or there’s an imminent xenomorph threat that it’s better for me to just run away, which I do. I attempt to move North while trying to scare away a hivelord that attempted to attack me, but the moment they move away I run back to the only marine remaining, the Foxtrot SL. He’s really injured and moving slow, at which point I attack SAG3 when they approach. The stabs I take at you are an attempt to get you to back off so I can drag the Foxtrot SL to safety, until I understand that I’ve taken too much damage, and you’re not gonna let up, so I just run away instead.
Now, I wanna go over what’s said in the report,
First of all, it was not one other marine, as I said in my perspective, and I was moving with them in an effort to provide any assistance to them I could, not to explicitly hive dive. I didn’t know we were going towards the hive, maybe I could’ve guessed? But given how much xenos lost during the fight at comms, and how empty caves was, I didn’t expect a huge amount of resistance. Also, since xenos were pushed back really hard, I was expecting the frontline to be at the hive anyways. I was more confident because of the numerous corrupted weeds around the caves which would give me an edge in escaping, which you admit it did.
I’m just gonna paste this line from the synthetic programming, since it basically addresses this in its entirety.
While a synthetic is alone or in a small group (2-3) while moving between locations, returning wounded or patrolling the colony, they are allowed to defend themselves and the lives of other humans, provided that assistance from others nearby is ineffective or unable to arrive in time.
I’m not sure what you want me to do when you’re slashing to death a single marine, running away sure, but I was still near full health, and thought the least I could do was an attempt at making you back off, knowing that if things got even remotely dicey it wouldn’t be super hard to run. I don’t think that a single marine who’s in critical condition is effective, and so you don’t need to slash me first to make me fight. I was attacking you to get you off the marine you’re slashing. The goal isn’t to kill you, the goal is to make you go away.
Again, did not know it was the hive until most of the marines already were dead, in which I shortly after make a break for it, while trying to help the Foxtrot Leader who was the only one still alive. Also, again, the greeno weeds were great at helping me escape, which is why I was less concerned I might be stuck in there.
Once again, as mentioned in the synthetic programming guidelines, attacking does not just have to be in self-defense.
There was a member of the USCM who was in danger, which is why I retaliated against you. Please correct me if I’m interpeting you wrong, but you seem to be trying to connect the supposed hive diving with me attacking you, when, in my eyes, they’re events that aren’t really correlated. It’s not like me attacking you was part of hive diving, nor do I think there was such a danger that it would’ve been impossible for me to get out if I engaged. The only ones who followed the Foxtrot SL was you and a drone, with said drone seemingly not commited to attacking, mostly just weeding and taking one or two slashes. Maybe if more of the hive’s combat castes that were just South came after us, I’d have cut my losses and abandoned the marine.