1024, The Second Artifact
Zerakas bowed to Darth Malthael with neither servility nor arrogance, then gestured toward the passenger cabin. His elegant voice appeared directly in Darth Malthael's mind. "Powerful and dark Lord, after a long period of investigation and comparison, we have roughly narrowed down the location of this artifact."
Darth Malthael nodded and followed Zerakas into the passenger cabin of the Protoss transport ship, where he took a seat.
This Protoss transport ship was piloted automatically by artificial intelligence. Because the Protoss population was extremely small, they made extensive use of artificial intelligence and automation technology.
However, unlike the Star Wars universe, the Protoss were extremely cautious when it came to artificial intelligence. While they gave these intelligences immense computational power and the ability to adapt to various situations, they would never allow artificial intelligence to develop consciousness of its own.
Moreover, because the Protoss did not need spoken language, the robots they built generally lacked language capabilities as well. Or rather, strictly speaking, they lacked any language capability that allowed them to communicate with ordinary living beings.
Protoss robots mostly used a machine language, able to convey vast amounts of information in just a few syllables. Interestingly, this was somewhat similar to the robots in Star Wars.
Only when the Protoss were truly driven to desperation would they apply their boundless wisdom to artificial intelligence. This was the Purifier Program, a technology that combined the consciousness of Protoss Templars with artificial intelligence.
This technology was also present aboard the mothership, but Tang Xiao regarded it as one of the most dangerous technologies and was generally unwilling to consider activating it. Of course, even if it were activated, the cost would be astronomical. More importantly, it required the cooperation of Protoss scientists. None of that was something they