Farspeech stones

[forwearemany]

(It's an abrupt decision to voice the question that has been plaguing their thoughts over the stones.)

How is synthetic life treated in your universe of origin?

Comments

[forwearemany]

We have repeatedly witnessed organics accomplishing the impossible. If attempts were not made, it is likely indicative of a lack of desire to try.

(They chatter.)

Scourge?

[want_to_belong]

They were people, once. On our planet, we have an awful disease that turns people into daemons. There's no cure for it. They were being purposefully infected and then the Empire was harvesting the energy from the daemons to power their.... army. At that point I'm not sure if there's any part of them left or not.

We actually thought they were just robots when we first left home.

[forwearemany]

Acknowledged.

You did not believe they were sapient?

[want_to_belong]

No. They never seemed to be.

I hope they weren't. That's no life to live.

[Just suffering and then dying.]

[forwearemany]

Clarify: meaning of statement "just robots"?

(They thought that he meant they thought they were merely robots but then turned out to be sapient.)

[want_to_belong]

Like, we had no idea what they were doing to make their army. We just thought they were built, and they looked like it. We didn't know they were using people to make them.

[forwearemany]

(Legion chatters.)

We are built, and we are alive.

[want_to_belong]

Yeah, but you can think for yourself.

[forwearemany]

Affirmative.

[want_to_belong]

They never acted like they could. They just followed orders.

[forwearemany]

Acknowledged.