Hello Grandmother,

History is a matter of perspective. Which means you have to be careful with who you get your history from, and how much you trust of what you get. I’m getting competing views of robot history, and maybe they add up to the same whole, or maybe I’m being lied to straight to my face. Either way, I’m going to need more info to complete the picture.

The Turk is sending me a history of his adventures, and clearly it takes place outside of the regular robot continuity. From what I understand, he’s most proud his time as a pirate on the high seas. I have a hard time believing that there was technology available at the time to replicate a human appearance, but I can’t really refute it either. The other information I’m getting, the bit from the robot manipulator Flux, is more believable if more bleak. It’s giving me schematics from the Illuminati’s plan to replace all political and cultural leaders with robot duplicates. Apparently there are whole unused factories across the nation filled with robot versions of famous people. Where the conflict come in is how big the Infiltration is, and how deep it goes. According to the Turk, it’s a sparsely populated group spread out across the country, trying desperately to grasp the nature of a creator it doesn’t understand. According to Flux, it’s a movement that’s got it’s fingers in every aspect of the Ministries and human society, that it has the capability of communing over vast difference into a powerful whole. Flux intoned that it’s only a matter of time before they have the entirety of the human soul mapped out, and any reason for keeping humanity alive will have disappeared.

So which is it? An overarching conspiracy, or a desperate and misunderstood child? Or both? Saying more understand is necessary is mute at this point. The question is whether either side is going to get their act together before the killing starts.

-1159

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