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Lead observer's log. The autonomous war robots have conquered two third of the planet. The people there are fighting vigorously, in the hope that a project of super-weapon called "Zero Dawn" will go to fruition and save their world if given enough time.
I find that highly illogical, as the self-replication system of the robot keep their growth rate slightly exponential, and thus will continue to overwhelm whatever defense lines they will encounter.
Moreover, current observation let me conclude that it is too late to save the biosphere, because it has collapsed beyond the critical point. I am positively convinced that it is now impossible to restore it. If that "Zero Dawn" weapon is effectively created, deployed, and works as expected, it would not allow the people of this planet to survive.
Supplemental. The robots showed a growing capacity to take over our probes. The communication protocols of our devices have been steadily reversed-enginereed, to the point that we lost control on them. The builtin self-destruct of most probes have been triggered when succesfully overriden. Remaining probes that failed to self-destruct have been shot hastily, according to security procedures.
I will send a report to the High Command, recommending to quarantine this system.
Lead observer's log, a warp signature from the Sol system has been detected. Five seconds later, a gamma rays burst was detected at the limit of the system. It was caused without a doubt by a fault on some antimatter containment system, leading to a catastrophic failure. Arriving at this location, we found a wreckage with no sign of life.
However, a lot of data containers were properly protected and were salvaged from the wreckage and will be brought back to Vulcan for thorough study and cataloguing.
A quick glance showed a kind of progressive curriculum, looking like an attempt to archive and teach most of their knowledge, their cultural diversity, their history, as well as their scientific achievements.
It is a big loss that these people disappear when they were almost ready for a first contact
Lead observer's log, this is the last observation of the Sol system before an effective quarantine with military restriction. The robots have conquered almost all of the planet. Any sign of life have disappeared.