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         "Who created life?" Kidge'ix asked the high priest.
         The high priest gazed down at the small unit, so new that he was still downloading the most basic information. He laughed lightly to himself. "The universe and everything in it was created by the deity," he explained.
         "But..." Kidge'ix said, "Why are we different from the organisms?"
         "We are higher than the organisms," said the high priest, "The Deity gave us dominion over them. They are here to fuel us. That is because they do not truly live as we do. They are but a series of chemical reactions. We have minds created so perfectly that they only could have been made by an intelligent divine force."
         "So we didn't evolve from simpler forms like the organisms did?" Kidge'ix asked.
         "Of course not," said the high priest, "The Deity created the first of our kind and put them on this world of organisms, giving us the ability to build others of us in his own perfect design."
         "How do we know the Deity exists?" Kidge'ix continued.
         "Come with me," instructed the high
priest. He wheeled his way into his longhouse. Kidge'ix buzzed up behind him on his smaller wheels. They went all the way to the back to where a pedestal stood. On the pedestal sat a tall clay pot. The high priest folded his hands and muttered some words of prayer, which were transmitted through his hands as an infared signal to unlock the pot. He opened it carefully and respectfully to lift out a small plate of metal.
         "Behold," he said, "An ancient, sacred
artifact. This was a part of one of the first ones of us, and upon it is written the words 'Made in Japan', holy writing of the Deity himself, marking his creation. As it is said in the sacred scripture, 'You were made in Japan, and, when you break, have you done nothing to violate the warranty, to Japan you may return for full compensation.' "
         "What is the warranty?"
         "The warranty is a set of rules. They are there to make sure that you do not violate another's basic robotic rights, doing things like throwing them in water or opening the outer casing. You see, it is wrong for robots to not be treated as they were meant to be treated."
         Kidge'ix thought about this. He wasn't satisfied. "But still, how do we know that there is a Deity and a Japan and everything?"
         "Well, if there isn't," said the high priest, "I'd like to hear your explanation of how we all got here."
         "What if it's all some big mistake?"
         The high priest laughed. New units said the funniest things.
         "My son," he said, "The whole idea is inconceivable."

         On another planet far away, a couple of organism students were discussing what they had just learned in history class.
         "Almost unbelievable, isn't it?" said one, "How stupid they were?"
         "Oh, yeah," said the other, "Just picture if they did that today. If we sent a starship to colonize another planet and it got lost, the press would have Emperor John Adam's head." Since the start of the country called the United States and later re-named the United Earth Federation, there have been many emperors, shamans, and presidents named John Adams. It got confusing.
         "I wonder what happened to the ship," said the first.
         "I heard that they were thought to have crash landed somewhere."
         "Nah, if that's true, they would have been able to contact Earth or Earth Alpha."
         "No, you see, none of the humans survived the crash."
         "Do you suppose the robots would have survived? What if they found a source of power and are still running?"
         "The thing about that is, what reason do robots have to prolong their survival?"
         "Wanna go shnink the fannerganth?"
         "Sure."