The Mystery of the Clones' Extinction

From the information obtained at the fourth coordinate star, the Collectors learned of the crisis the Berdu civilization had faced: the Berdu had been attacked in rebellion by the clones they created.

The clones took advantage of their inherent strengths, hid in the shadows, and seized the most vital region of the Berdu civilization—their homeworld.

They suddenly possessed military power and technological products far surpassing those of the Berdu, and began planning fierce assaults on the other four Berdu colonies, determined to exterminate the Berdu and eliminate future trouble.

Although the clones and the Berdu could essentially be considered the same race, what the Berdu had done to the clones ensured that the clones would feel no pity whatsoever for them. There was only hatred.

But therein lay the problem. According to the Collectors' deductions, they should not have encountered the Deante people, nor should they have encountered other Berdu who had regressed into primitive social forms, because the clones should have wiped the Berdu out completely.

After the clones thoroughly defeated and exterminated the Berdu, the Collectors should have encountered a civilization established by the clones. Yet reality did not match the deduction. The Collectors saw no clones.

Why had Berdu society regressed into a barbaric state? Where had the clones gone? What had been the ultimate outcome of the war between the Berdu and the clones?

"Missing fragments. Something should have happened afterward, directly causing the total extinction of the clones, while more than ninety percent of the Berdu also perished, resulting in a civilizational break."

This deduction was mainly based on conjectures formed after extensive surveys.

At first, the Collectors believed that after defeating the Berdu, the clones had occupied the four colonial planets. However, bioweapons created by the Berdu had caused their intelligence levels to plummet.