On Jan 25, 2018, at 4:29 PM, Catherine Berry <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

Thus it's surprising to the point of jaw-dropping that the Vilani were so willing to land ships there once they figured out most of what was going on.

Particularly with their deep cultural history with robots being Not Their Friends. Although this neatly explains why robots aren’t so pervasively present as one might expect.