And what makes you think she would want to cooperate with us instead of killing us all on sight? If we ended up having to kill her again to stop her, we'd just be right back where we started, and we wouldn't have anything to show for it.

Only a fool wouldn't realize that the machine was either left there on purpose or because it was useless to them. Suppose we break it in the process. What then? Do really you think they'd be so kind as to supply us with spare parts to fix it?