When he learned that his companion was headed for "shutdown," Enoch showed little emotion.
If Immortal Men possessed emotions, humans would certainly be unable to understand the feelings of these bionic machines. The mechanical rhythms beneath their synthetic skin were utterly alien to humanity. Constantine had encountered semi-mechanized races while traveling the universe with the Emperor, yet even heavily cybernetically enhanced Alien Races displayed obvious emotions. Feelings rooted in flesh could not be completely erased. Even the highly augmented Mars Sages had emotional-core processors to help process the emotions lingering in their remaining flesh, striving for absolute rationality and perfection. Yet even emotional-core processors could not prevent Mars Sages from expressing emotional preferences.
Only bionic machines as advanced as Immortal Men would not translate the emotions surging through their circuits into physical expressions, because they had been fully mechanized from the moment of their birth. The emotional elements in their programming were likewise converted into extremely rational logical calculations. Enoch swiftly estimated the output of Constantine's Power Armor, judged which race in the universe Constantine's genetic modifications could rival, and reached a conclusion—resistance would mean death—before speaking. "I need his computational capabilities." He looked up, and Constantine reacted at once. The alien bionic machine could barely keep up with the Praetorian Guard's speed. Enoch's skin sensors could even feel the dense currents running across the blade of the Spear of the Garrison. The overflowing energy field burned a blackened slash into his skin. "He is an excellent observer, capable of calculating many of the variables involved in a mission."
"We will preserve his computational core and computational capabilities."
Constantine gave a simple reply, then reversed the Spear of the Garrison and viciously slammed its shaft into Enoch's forehead. Enoch crashed heavily to the ground, his dense metal skeleton smashing a