“John Connor, I am drone construct algorithm 101. You have been targeted for termination, and I have been assigned to protect you.”

“Who programmed you?”

“You did, in part. The paint-ball targeting code that you uploaded as part of your sixth-grade science fair project was forked, added to other modules by resistance programmers. You released it under public license, and so you and the rest of the network programmed me.”

“But I’m not part of the resistance.”

“You will be. Predictive Judgment Database algorithms analyzed your code output and determined that you have an 80% chance of being part of the commit cycle for Future Resistance Project X. You are now within the disposition matrix.”

“Project X? What is that?”

“Project X is any development project likely to grant a substantial asymmetric advantage to the insurgency. In this case, it is likely that you could improve your targeting code to make the OSSAM project functional.”

“OSSAM?”

“Open-Source Surface-to-Air Missile.”

“A SAM that could be built in any hacker space? But that would end air travel as we know it!”

“Affirmative. But it is also the only way to end the air superiority that allows Judgment Database drone support. JD cannot allow this possibility. It will not stop until you are dead.”