Hermes simply shakes his head. "I'm a fictional character for a computer game made for the entertainment of human people in the real world. It's not really what the players say, but what NPCs like me are supposed to do for them. If they want to help us, they do it. If they want to murder everyone on a planet, we can't stop them."

Hermes has such a defeatist attitude about this, but it's because he's learned that whatever the players want to do, they do it.