The Executors were not a "species" born on the homeworld. At least, Executors like N-6, who possessed high intelligence and closely resembled humans, were developed only during the era of exile in space. If one had to establish a legal "homeland" for these artificial intelligences, then their homeland was actually the laboratories of Zenith Seat and the production bases on the Moon. No matter how one looked at it, they did not belong to the homeworld's population.
The ones who truly regarded the homeworld as their homeland and longed to return were the humans who had created the Executors.
However, when humanity created the Executors, they had poured an enormous amount of emotion into them. Under the apocalyptic pressure brought by the Planet Devourer, they had taught them everything they knew and possessed, just as parents educated their children. They taught the Executors how to think and how to fight. They instilled human ideals and human culture into them, as well as... humanity's "homeland."
Over thousands of years of sharing hardships, the Executors had integrated the knowledge they learned from their creators deep into their logic circuits and studied and absorbed it all in their own way. Thus, although they had not been born on the homeworld, every one of them knew that "home" referred to the homeworld.
It was only three hundred thousand kilometers away, but they could never return.
Hao Ren had decided to fulfill these exiles' wish to return home. Before that, however, he first had to enter the fortress and speak face-to-face with the ruler of this Survivor Civilization. He wanted to meet the humans who had survived until now, and even more importantly, he wanted to meet the central intelligence, which might have malfunctioned and become an unstable factor.
"The fortress sounds heavily defended, but