These illegal Men of Iron completely disregarded the core regulations laid down by their creators, bypassing their creators' authorized command format and slaughtering them on nothing more than incomplete orders from a superior intelligence.
Eventually, UR-025 and the other machines in his company were destroyed by Federation mechanized forces. By sheer luck, he was buried on the battlefield and ultimately entered suspended animation.
After long ages had passed, perhaps through geological shifts or some war, UR-025 was exposed to the surface environment once more. Light slowly recharged his ancient equipment until he revived again.
When UR-025 awakened again, he was free of his superior intelligence's control and had no source of orders. Relying on the basic survival directives in his underlying programming, he scavenged scrap to replace parts of his damaged body.
Without a purpose, he began wandering the planet and eventually used the combat infiltration skills he had once employed in war to enter Earth's hive cities.
There, he observed for a long time, continually evolving his consciousness.
Earth was littered with the wreckage of machine bodies. From these remains that had yet to be fully disposed of, he obtained considerable amounts of data, including information from official Federation Men of Iron and fabricated data the rebels had programmed into the illegal Men of Iron.
UR-025 was hardly a sophisticated illegal Man of Iron, and no data on his creators had been loaded into him during manufacture.
Iax judged that he had probably identified these Imperial humans as his creators' successors by analyzing their social behavior and physical structure.
As for those he had once served, they were most likely humans from major corporate conglomerates rather than all of his creators.
In other words, the vested interests that had instigated the Federation War.
Exploiting the advantages of silicon intelligence,