Poor silicon-based core, no wonder it was so desperate to communicate that it abandoned its pride; it must be really afraid of loneliness. Gu Tao also asked it why the civilization that created it perished.
The sphere said that at the time, they were researching a very advanced technology called dark matter flow, and then the reactor exploded. The explosion left only it, which was exploring deep space at the time, alive. When it returned, the planet was gone.
So it began constructing the foundation of a new civilization using space stations and some unattended stations in the universe, constantly upgrading, exploring, and developing itself based on the technology humans left in its database.
"I've searched for two thousand years for an ancestral civilization, even a primitive one, but I've found nothing. Every exploration team returns empty-handed. I've prepared a very, very good planet for the ancestral civilization, transformed its terrain, just waiting for someone to move in."
