"How did it go?"
"No luck. Someone from Third Squad just tried to sneak aboard that supply transport, but he slipped up. They caught him, brought him back, and put him in solitary."
"Ugh! That makes eight attempts, right? What exactly are these guys trying to do?"
"Who knows! They captured us and then left us to our own devices. Not only are all the guards robots, but even a failed escape attempt only gets you a few hours in solitary. You come out without a scratch.
"The synthetic food tastes pretty bad, but we get three square meals a day, all we can eat. Are they planning to raise us like pig beasts?"
"Yeah, it's too strange. Even on the ship that brought us here, I didn't see a single living person. Somehow, it's starting to creep me out..."
"I hear most religious types are lunatics. These All Things Unity Society people aren't planning to use us as sacrifices or something, are they?"
"I don't think so. I just complained that I was bored, and guess what? Those robots brought me a Star Battle Chess set without a word-a really popular board game among the Twin Stars people-and a compressed archive of TV shows. They even had my favorite, Planetary Geography-highly recommended by Little Octopus!"
"Yeah! My old herniated disc started acting up just now, and they immediately brought over an automatic massage chair. I have to say, it worked pretty well!"
"..."
"All in all, apart from not being allowed to leave this sealed-off base, this really doesn't seem like the way you'd treat prisoners on death row, does it?"
"Could they be treating us so nicely because they want to negotiate peace with us?"
"That might be it. They haven't even assigned a single living guard. That