They mean both of those ideas, but especially the rocket launcher legs. Bastion's brain is a newer model; they have just enough imagination to iterate upon the latter suggestion and come up with multiple ways for it to be a disaster for themself and everyone around them, starting with falling on their face or having their tank treads fall apart when they try to switch into that configuration, and continuing on to setting off an explosion every time they take a step and, depending on the structural integrity of the ship, either propelling themself ballistically through the decks until they punch a hole in the bottom or blasting themself to bits in the confined space of a hallway. No thanks!
// I think my self-repair function could fix that but I'd rather not have to, they say after a pause long enough that even a human would probably have noticed it, much less another omnic.
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They mean both of those ideas, but especially the rocket launcher legs. Bastion's brain is a newer model; they have just enough imagination to iterate upon the latter suggestion and come up with multiple ways for it to be a disaster for themself and everyone around them, starting with falling on their face or having their tank treads fall apart when they try to switch into that configuration, and continuing on to setting off an explosion every time they take a step and, depending on the structural integrity of the ship, either propelling themself ballistically through the decks until they punch a hole in the bottom or blasting themself to bits in the confined space of a hallway. No thanks!
// I think my self-repair function could fix that but I'd rather not have to, they say after a pause long enough that even a human would probably have noticed it, much less another omnic.