After Humanity
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Humanity is gone. However, humans being what they are, knew that they would die. So, they built robots to carry on their lives. Their history, culture, science, engineering. Everything, locked inside thousands of expert robots. It's been over a century, and now, it's time for Earth's new civilization to record their own history.
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