Astraea
Location: Deep Space ~ V.I.R.G.O.
Hearing the sound of footsteps rushing towards the chamber, Astraea stiffened slightly, redirecting processing power away from managing her Human terminal so that she could access the security cameras outside. She needn't have bothered, it seemed, as in another instant, the Human - who had designated himself as Kaiden - entered the room. He glanced around the room, evidently taking in the scene of destruction left in the Sanshrin warrior's wake. Once again, she focused her attention on operating her complex biological avatar, turning to face the new arrival. To her surprise, however, her legs - no, her terminal's legs - did not respond nearly so articulately as she was growing accustomed to. Her knees seemed to be... shaking? Regardless, just the simple motion caused her to stumble. She tried to regain her balance, taking a few steps forward, but ended up clumsily falling on all fours. Now that she had noticed it, it occurred to her that her avatar's entire form was shaking. More than just that, a strange fluid appeared to be seeping out from locations all across her terminal, lowering the body's temperature drastically. Her intake of life-sustaining atmospheric gases through the body's throat unit was growing irregular as well. Although she didn't have sufficient data on the biological organism she was inhabiting to run an adequate diagnostic, her basic subroutines, for lack of better identification, immediately concluded that the terminal she was inhabiting must have suffered some level of damage during her engagement against the Sanshrin, resulting in a coolant leak and an obstruction of vital functions. If the trembling of the terminal's limbs was any indication, it was already experiencing some loss of motor functionality as a consequence. Most likely, it might cease to operate at any point in time.
"I- SYSTEM ERROR IDENTIF-F-F-" One of her subroutines cut into her speech processes, spouting a diagnostic result before encountering an error due to incomplete data and shutting down, resulting in a choking in her throat as she tried to continue speaking, before, presumably, it was too late. Addressing the new arrival directly, she stared him down with her mismatched eyes, finding them widening due to some sort of biological impulse she couldn't seem to keep in check. More of the leaking coolant material was beginning to appear on her brow, so, worried that it might be hazardous should it enter the inside of the terminal's head unit, she quickly brushed it off with a gloved palm. She just needed to think about this rationally for a moment. If she simply identified the symptoms and listed them to the Human, it was likely that he might be able to provide her with an analysis of the body's condition, at the very least. Yet, despite determining this course of action, diagnostics continued trying - and failing - to run in the back of her mind, coming up with increasingly bizarre, improbable, and deadly explanations of the damage she might have sustained. With each failed analysis, a sensation she couldn't describe - let alone analyze or control - began to well up within her, driving her processes to run faster and produce even more errors. This seemed to signal some sort of functionality error within her main CPU, which only increased the urgency of the situation in her eyes. "Human Unit Kaiden, this terminal appears to have sustained some level of internal damage. This program lacks sufficient data to analyze the extent of this damage. I re... require immediate assistance. Symptoms of the damage include a leak of coolant material across the entire body, a weakness and strange oscillation in the motor fibers in the body's limbs, irregular intake of life-sustaining atmospheric gases, and logic errors within threat and damage detection subroutines within the terminal's main processing unit. This has occurred in the wake of a brief combat situation resulting in no direct hits sustained by either side. Can you provide an analysis of this phenomenon? If possible, run diagnostic on this terminal immediately, identify the errors, and fix them. If you cannot, data extrapolation leads me to conclude that a total system failure may be imminent..."