Description

Attention. Subject: Combine Overwatch Voice. Designation: Artificial Intelligence. Function: Field Commander, Public Announcer for Combine Overwatch on Earth. Secondary references: Overwatch, Dispatch. Communication medium: PA systems, human Overwatch units’ radios. Vocal characteristics: Female, flat, clinical tone. Speech pattern: Disjointed, akin to telephone banking systems. Subject utilizes medically-inspired Newspeak. Context: Citizen disobedience, resistance activity, Combine tactics. Metaphor: Bacterial infection and treatment. Example broadcast: ‘Attention, ground units. Anticitizen reported in this community. Code: lock, cauterize, stabilize.’ .End of line. Code 1.