That depends what you consider 'old.' For things like ships, it's enough for only a few generations. AI cores are difficult to get right.
[Breq doeesn't stretch the way Lucretia does when they're away from the press, but her shoulders do seem to relax slightly. Then they go still again, at that question.]
That is... Ah. A complicated question. [She remembers how brusque she's been to Lucretia in the past, about these sorts of conversations. She's doing her best not to fall into being taciturn bordering on rude. Lucretia has been nothing but polite and pleasant during their interactions.]
The planet I [I, this body, she means but does not say,] was from originally? I couldn't say. It was annexed into the Radch a few centuries ago. The Radch itself is thousands of years old.
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[Breq doeesn't stretch the way Lucretia does when they're away from the press, but her shoulders do seem to relax slightly. Then they go still again, at that question.]
That is... Ah. A complicated question. [She remembers how brusque she's been to Lucretia in the past, about these sorts of conversations. She's doing her best not to fall into being taciturn bordering on rude. Lucretia has been nothing but polite and pleasant during their interactions.]
The planet I [I, this body, she means but does not say,] was from originally? I couldn't say. It was annexed into the Radch a few centuries ago. The Radch itself is thousands of years old.