"Captain, these robots seem... different from the ones we've seen before? Huh? Listen! They can even boost morale?!"
Among the pirates driven out of the bridge, a junior pirate officer turned to the captain beside him in astonishment.
"Uh..." The captain was just as baffled.
As he remembered it, shouldn't a purely mechanical army appear marching in perfect parade formation, with straight ranks no matter which angle you looked from, displaying a pleasing mechanical elegance?
But was there even a shred of coordination in these robots' behavior? They were a complete mess, as if every one of them were playing a single-player game!
And where had all your mechanical rigidity gone?
Just now, when he had been a little slow leaving, one robot had actually raised its gun and cursed at him in a bizarre metallic voice...
If not for its plainly exposed mechanical structure, he would have mistaken it for a suit of Powered Armor with someone operating it inside.
But as a leader, even if he didn't understand, he couldn't let his subordinates see that he genuinely had no clue. That would undermine his authority...
"Ahem! That just shows how little you know. These are high-end robots!
"You've heard of the Ghost Captain, leader of the Ghost Pirate Gang, right? He's a high-ranking noble from the Machine Race, with a status equivalent to one of our Empire's star-sector governors!
"The Machine Race's artificial intelligence technology is centuries ahead of the Empire's. They've beaten the Empire so badly that it doesn't even dare deploy intelligent technology on a large scale anymore. How could their robots not be advanced?
"Otherwise, do you think an invasion by a mere few tens of thousands of robots could have breached that impregnable headquarters and even forced Lord Golden Dagger to take his own