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Yao Yuan was stunned He was unsure of the chip’s significance until Chou Yue poked Ren Tao in his back, who then lazily added, "We’ve looked over this set-up’s purpose while you were asleep and we’ve narrowed it down to several possibilities First is to prevent their technology fro stolen, and another is as a self-destructive last resort

"However, there are obvious logical loopholes in these 2 hypotheses For the first, this civilization is, like the Hope, a space noy that’s far more advanced than ours The Acadee that’s equivalent to our fourth or nearing fifth industrial revolution It’s unlikely for theical thievery because the enemy they would face would either be drastically backwards like us, or so y would be worthless So unless they are shielding their technology from themselves, the first scenario is quite unlikely

"The second scenario is hard to believe as well Even though the battery could create a plase would be too small to cause any actual har as the robots themselves, so… this set-up is more likely to har?" The concept crossed Yao Yuan’s hts, but he quietly waited for Ren Tao to finish

Ren Tao resumed, "As I’ve said, the civilization’s incredibly advanced, and this could be seen from their military make-up It is completely autoue, it could be said to be the perfect future version ofscience fiction, but its supremacy could be seen from our foray into the warship husk A completely destroyed warship that’s not even part of the uards One could only iolden era I bet even a single warship contained tens of thousands of these robots back then

"Obviously these robots could be used for war, but during peace times, they could be converted to become manual laborers that maintain the warship as well It’s a perfect combination of civilian and ar s, this insurmountable amount of robots couldn’t possibly be manually controlled There has to be a central server that control everything, and that antic battleship And I suspect this alien civilizationAIs

"And if one is to follow this supposition, they will arrive at an interesting supposition"

Caught up in the excite around the room In a conversation that looked suspiciously like he was the sole participant, the elaboration continued "Invention of AI and robotics reatly to relieve the citizens of physical labor It’s not hard to iine that robots of more diverse functionalities were invented so that the citizens could relegate more time for study and recreation In other words, the hard part of life, which is work and labor, was cut out thanks to the automated robots…

"However, unlike hu capability As tiularity [1] Yes, there ht've been limitations like Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, but as creatures born out of pure logic, it would not be hard to argue them away This could only lead to… The rise of theplays into this civilization’s overall history, but I have a few speculations in mind For one, perhaps the alien race came out on top in the war between them and the robots, but the results of that war made their home planet ultimately inhospitable and they had to escape into space to find a new ho iine the weapons of mass destruction for this race The difference between us and theh is that we have space-warp as a tru the impossibility of survival in space, they seeked a self-destructive end…

"Of course, it could be that the robots were the party that came up victorious in the war The people had built this battleship to escape the fate of being hunted down So this battleship ht up to by their robotic pursuers…

"Either way, these are my inferences from the unique set-up of the internal chip

"This is a civilization that both depended on and ary of the use of robotics…

"A civilization that was cornered by its own creation!"

Translator's Thoughts

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[1] Term is borrowed from Ron Currie’s Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles Definition as provided in the novel, the basic idea is of the ains consciousness