Akila followed them with less urgency. She watched as Tanikazi was shocked by the beam and dropped to the ground. Not knowing if she could reason with the machine but she stepped up and tried anyway. "Your tactics are crude. If you want us to cooperate then force is not the method to do so. That is a last resort. I know not what you are capable of, but I implore diplomacy. Now stand down. What is it that you need of us?" Her words carried confidence and insight from her past. Whether on not the robot understood such a gesture was another thing.