It was pointless, all of it, he thought. They want to destroy… Well, actually, so do we, we all want to destroy it, but we won’t save anyone by doing so. Regis is uninhabited, humans have nothing to look for here. So where does this fury come from? After all, it’s just the same as if the others had been killed by a storm or an earthquake. No one’s conscious intentions, no hostile thought stood in our path. An inanimate process of self-organization… Was it worth using all of our strength and energy to destroy it, only because to begin with we took it for a lurking enemy who first ambushed the
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