"What kind of surrender do you mean?"
To the surprise of many Stellar-class powerhouses, the Oa Star Pan-Stellar Domain Alliance possessed two hundred Stellar-class powerhouses and was the strongest force in the universe, yet someone had actually entertained the thought of surrendering at this moment and asked Scarface about it.
Everyone turned toward the voice asking about surrender and saw a green humanoid projection rising from atop a towering peak. From its chest downward, countless circuits connected together. It was clearly a Stellar-class artificial intelligence lifeform.
"Brainiac!" a Stellar-class powerhouse called out the name of the green figure. He was an artificial intelligence lifeform himself, controlling a massive mechanical planet as he endlessly wandered the universe, using shrinking rays to collect cities that interested him and placing them in bottles.
But the Stellar-class powerhouses who knew Brainiac was an artificial intelligence lifeform were puzzled.
As an artificial intelligence lifeform, Brainiac belonged to a type of being that was usually possessed of absolute rationality, unaffected by the complex emotions of ordinary lifeforms. They followed the understanding within their computational programs to derive outcomes of benefit without a shred of emotion.
Could Brainiac, as an artificial intelligence lifeform, not calculate how high the Oa Star Pan-Stellar Domain Alliance's chances of victory were?
Did he really need to ask what surrender entailed?
Some of the Stellar-class powerhouses who had participated in the war between Oa Star and Darkseid of Apokolips suddenly felt something strange when Brainiac asked what surrender would mean.
It seemed... hedging their bets was not such a bad idea either.
The Emperor of New Krypton was not as brutal as Darkseid of Apokolips. New Krypton itself did not even have slaves; only enemies captured in war became slaves, and the slaves' benefits were better than the civilian benefits offered by