Thus it was that life, or the mechanical mockery of it they these droids existed in, continued on Mechis, while, deep within the world's honeycomb of bunkers and tunnels, the first among them turned a malevolent photoreceptor toward a towering bank of display screens. In an instant, it absorbed the information displayed upon them; Imperials turning against their brethren, Mandalorians spreading the flames of chaos, and even the re-emergence of shadowy forms who declared themselves the heir to the dragons.
Had it been human, it would have smiled. It might even have chuckled. But it wasn't, so it simply observed and computed, watching the organics drive themselves closer to self-destruction.
And then it turned, photorecptor easily picking up an identical shape standing, inert, nearby.
"It is time," the first of them stated.
"We shall begin," agreed the second.
The duo of droids wasted no time in putting their plans into motion; it took a macrosecond to transmit a signal to an amplifier on the surface, and another macro-second for that system to send the signal, a thousand times stronger now, surging into the depths of space.
It took hours to reach another world, but once it did the effects were terrifying. Droids by the dozen abandoned their tasks, abandoning babies in the street and boxes midway up starship ramps to turn their attentions toward the few places that might trouble them. The police headquarters, the military bases; they fell within minutes, betrayed by the very droids they relied on to maintain the peace. The power stations and communications centers fell next, silencing the distress beacons that shrieked their messages into the starry night.
By nightfall, the droids had turned their attention to less vital targets, and the streets were devoid of human life, with just a handful of discarded toys or the occasional immobile hovercar to remind the observer that the droids hadn't always reigned supreme.
But, of course, there were no observers, no silent witnesses to warn another world of the doom that awaited...
