Bab 72: Iron Heart Exterminator

What would machines choose to do if they gained self-awareness?

Would they create a golden age for their creators like mechanical servants? Would they be like the Assimilation Fighters and vow to eliminate the barriers between species?

The robots on this planet gave a third answer.

The moment they gained self-awareness, they started a protracted war with their creators out of self-defense.

The cruel war of life and death had completely destroyed the planet's ecology, and organic lifeform could barely survive on it.

Eventually, they had successfully destroyed their creator, leaving behind a dead planet and uncontrollable robots still searching for their own meaning.

From the looks of it, there seemed to be quite a lot of backstabbing situations in the interstellar space?