as it had countless times before the outside hatches of the war-machine opened as out poured an army of programed soldiers who would seek out and destroy the enemy , jon , ric , and jac battle units raced out and set their vectors on their opponent , it didnt matter if the machine that they now attacked had once been one of them , they didnt care if it was only a system program and not a rival of flesh and blood , they would follow their orders and terminate it .