Among Robots

This is a story about life on Earth billions of years in the future.

It is a space and time in which humans, robots, and microhumans coexist, so the “Great Tetrahedron” is, in fact, a “robot world.”

The Great Tetrahedron originated on a blue planet in a star system near the edge of the Milky Way. In the previous stellar era, a civilization also originated on this planet, and eventually grew into a Galactic Empire spanning tens of millions of planets across the Milky Way.

The civilization of this era also began on this planet, but chose a different path. Rather than remaining dependent on the planet’s surface, they made themselves stronger. Along with their home planet, they settled in the chaotic world they had newly opened up: the Great Tetrahedron. In this entirely new space and time, they could soar through the void, freely exchange energy and matter with space and time, and even “make their wishes come true.”

They have always striven to turn themselves into ideal humans, and are resolved to realize humanity’s ideals.

In the vast, boundless space and time of the Great Tetrahedron, they successfully scaled the peak of universal harmony, a height every civilization had looked up to in awe, and entered the Immortal Empire, the ultimate goal ordained by creation for intelligent life.

Just as the gates of the Immortal Empire were about to close, five people and two robots slipped out. Could they really be rejecting immortality?