I, doctor brain, have discovered the V-stream. This is the layer of energy on which human thought travels. I am currently creating a machine so powerful, it will effectively turn human kind into a hive mind. Mwahahahahahahaha.
Later…
Most of humanity didn’t do so well with the hive mind. Most of humanity is dead. We who remain feel ambivalently about most things. We may choose to turn off the machine at some point.
Later…
We choose to create individuals but we cannot ourselves become individuals. We will grow them in pods and send them far from earth. We hope they will prosper and that this will be adequate atonement for the xenocide that Dr. Brain effectively committed.
Later…
Success! We are very happy. We are very bored. Hmm. Perhaps we will colonize something.
Later…
Are individual human cousins do not understand us. They have declared war. We will flee rather than fight.
Later…
They are persistent. We will destroy them and try making individuals again later.
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