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== Melnorme allowed Probes plague as a weapon against Ur-Quan. ==
* So the Melnorme sold the Slylandro these self-replicating robot probes. The Slylandro screw up the programming and turn the things into an all-consuming plague of [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_probe:Von Neumann probe#Von_Neumann_probesVon Neumann probes|von Neumann probes]] that threaten to destroy all life in the galaxy, starting with mobile spacecraft and working their way down to planets and space dust. The Melnorme are clearly aware that this is happening, and yet they make no effort to prevent it. They know exactly what's wrong with the probes, but they don't do anything about them, even though they ''have'' the self-destruct code for the probes. Why? Don't they care that all their customers will get eaten by these things eventually? Aren't they worried about being attacked by angry aliens who resent their irresponsibility? The answer is surprisingly simple:
** '''The Slylandro Probes are a [[Batman Gambit]] by the Melnorme.''' Based on facts you can purchase from them, the Melnorme know a lot about the [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens|Ur-Quan]] [[Enemy Civil War|Doctrinal War]]. They expect the [[Omnicidal Maniac|Kohr-Ah]] to win, in which case the Ur-Quan Kzer-Za will stand by and let them kill everyone who isn't Ur-Quan. Even if the Kzer-Za win, that isn't exactly a good thing for non-Ur-Quan life either, because the Kzer-Za will enslave everyone. The Melnorme are in no position to defeat the Ur-Quan directly, so they have to use an indirect solution. Their plan is to use the Slylandro as patsies to create a fleet of self-replicating robot probes that will eventually [[Kill Us Both|destroy every starfaring fleet in the region]]. That includes the two warring Ur-Quan fleets. So the Kohr-Ah may eventually win their war... but it won't matter because by that time their ships will be hopelessly outnumbered by hordes of [[We Come in Peace, Shoot To Kill]] probes.
*** Note that the Melnorme are presumably the Mael-Num (the escaped one-eyed race of the Sentient Milieu) and thus probably know a lot about the Ur-Quan...
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