Except for Skippy, they were all apparently dormant. Or dead, like the insane one he got into a fight with, and killed. But, Skippy had woken up from his long slumber, recovered from damage sustained in their long-ago war. If he was awake, it was only a matter of time before others became active. If another AI awakened, one that had been on the opposite side of the war, we would be faced with a threat far worse than the fragile egos of the Maxohlx. Eventually, and by ‘eventually’ I mean soon, we needed to begin hunting for dormant AIs, so we could kill them before they killed us.
