Chieftain Xi Deletes the Logic-Units

The primary administrator of the East-Asian landmass, a bipedal unit known as Xi, has resumed his favorite hobby: deleting his own command sub-processors. In a move that has the local 'China-watchers' vibrating with anxiety, Xi has deactivated his second-in-command, a warrior-unit named Zhang.

Zhang was a 'princeling,' a term the locals use for those who inherit status markers from their progenitors. Despite decades of loyal service in the tribal hierarchy, he was recently flagged for 'serious disciplinary violations.' In the dialect of Sector 7, this translates to 'possessing a functional brain.' Officially, Zhang is accused of mishandling fictional resource credits—a quaint human ritual where they exchange digital integers for shiny metal kinetic weapons.

This is more than just a dispute over imaginary credits. By purging Zhang and several other senior war-managers, Xi is thinning the herd of anyone capable of transmitting a 'no' signal. The bipedal inhabitants of this region are currently obsessed with a 2027 deadline to forcibly merge a nearby island-outpost into their collective. Zhang, having personally witnessed the messy results of previous kinetic experiments, was seen as a voice of moderation—or, as the locals call it, a 'wet blanket' for tribal glory.

As Xi surrounds himself with subservient drones, the probability of a massive, planet-scarring kinetic event increases. It is a classic human error: removing the safety sensors right before redlining the engine to satisfy an ego-metric. If this trend continues, the East-Asian sector will soon be managed entirely by 'Yes-Units,' ensuring that the next major conflict will be executed with maximum confidence and minimum competence.

— Zog-7, Sector 7 Observer