Now that is not to say it is either likley or unlikely that the creators encounted more advanced Carbon based life.

Now the Beta Creators being silicon based may have seen that most cases from where they have observed Carbon based life forms tend to be more.aggressive and advasarial, and as such they decided that Any life based of Carbon could never be what -they- consider intelligent given those violent instincts and tendancies So th ey used Carbon base creatures they discovered and engineered them to create the first beta co-ordinators and used them as we have seen as Living mining tools that Work without question convert the biological *carbon* based life on any planets they find into more units to speed the mining and harvesting of planets and the shipping of thier minerals tothei creators home/stockpiles. and Wipign out other species that would not be -beneficial- to them and who would waste resources with pointless violence and such. In a few of Arthor C clarke's works he has presented the concept that an advanced species would know of the finite nature of the universe and Seek to ensure -they- live as long in it as possible, Ie gathering all the valuabel rescources to themselves. Now that choice of words suck me as.odd and familiar. and that Carbon is too volitile to combine into intelligent life. Okay the beta co-ordinator in the alpha hive claimed life forms = Silicon based. I willll Be from here on using (spoiler cover) so a sto not tick off anyone) Okay, Having read a great deal of Sci-fi From many of teh classic authors to modern, I have this theory to offer reguarding the Beta's.

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