[Yeah, and predictably, that someone will be Deckard.  He puts a hand on his teammatem's arm.]

  Gunmax…

  [The admonishment is mild, but it's still an admonishment –he doesn't figure he needs to say more.]

  Knock Out, please try to see it from their viewpoint.  The Brave Police aren't an ancient, independent race like you guys are.  A group of humans started a project, building a new kind of . . . of machine, really, and . . . in essence, it got away from them.  There have only ever been right at a dozen of us all told to date.  I was the first created, and the others are all programmed from me.  There's the eight of us who make up the Brave Police –nine counting Kagerou –and three in a series called the Chieftains.  And that's it.  That's all of us.  We're unique in our world.  There's never been anything like us before.  And we've only been in existence for about a-

  [He stops suddenly, like hitting a mental brick wall, then looks at Gunmax, optics a little bright with surprise.]

  It's been well over a year now, since the project was made public knowledge.  You're a year now, which means . . . I'm almost two.

  […wow…]