Talk:Automaton/@comment-25097911-20170106114919/@comment-28815651-20170108055733

dude you might start a damn civilization, like a dark new race of resource consuming intellegient beings, they gain tech and eventually different ages. by the time they reach the atomic age its basically a dying planet they live on and then they decide to go from planet to planet consuming resources as they endless rebuild new replicas and new tech. They might even disregard the safety of other lifeforms, even sentient ones. Wars on a planetary to interstellar scales become common in their history and eventually they become more or less the dominant race of the galaxy and even further watching their history progress they may wipe out all resistence in the galaxy and expand to new ones and they become the ultimate parasitic space-faring beings, equivalent to a race that has transcended. When you look back at it they are basically the ultimate self governing golems.