> [C]onsider that you are an enormous colony of vicious nanomachines, shaped by millions of years of fighting and cooperating with other varieties for survival.
> Your mobile swarm contains thousands of tools for finding, neutralizing, disassembling and anything useful it comes in contact with... including techniques for identifying and destroying possible intruders. Now, those tools aren't perfect -- and everybody else has their own tricks -- but the fact that you're around means you're competitively equipped and you're at least somebody's else's nightmare. All the really bad players were eaten long ago.
> [C]onsider that you are an enormous colony of vicious nanomachines, shaped by millions of years of fighting and cooperating with other varieties for survival.
> Your mobile swarm contains thousands of tools for finding, neutralizing, disassembling and anything useful it comes in contact with... including techniques for identifying and destroying possible intruders. Now, those tools aren't perfect -- and everybody else has their own tricks -- but the fact that you're around means you're competitively equipped and you're at least somebody's else's nightmare. All the really bad players were eaten long ago.
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