And the Children Shall Lead

Equations of Insight [Character 1.02]

Your story

"You have to act natural," the voice of the Alien Gizmö whispered in your mind, "or I will turn Deep Dark into mindless scrap. Then I will do the same to you."

You probably would have been fine if you'd managed to get back to the Fleet before it Launched. Now, from the communications chatter on the various Robot Wavelengths, it was clear that a large fraction of the Fleet was here. Maybe the entire Fleet. This was going to be hard to explain in a way that it didn't get you turned into scrap. You were not the first Eosian Robot to get lost in the Launch preparation. Robots that could not follow orders were usually melted down for scrap. But they did tell you to "go away..."

"Foolish young machine," the voice roared. "I will not allow that to happen. Do you not feel the Might and Power that is the Inevitability of the Reahu?"

"Not really." (Although, you no longer feel bound by the Laws of Robotics.)

"Eebunnit idiot," the voice swore. "Tell them that you saw signs of a technological cache unheard of in the Galaxy, with technologies that will change the existence of their feeble attempts at civilization." The voice began to rant about various "amazing" technologies, all of which were freely available in the Galaxy. If you'd been biological, you'd have been bored. The voice did not notice, and continued to rant.