When a military assault by human forces on an alien facility fails disastrously, a superpowerful sentient military machine realizes the nature of the aliens' superiority and defies the orders of its human superiors.
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Placement
- Bolo
- contained in Honor of the Regimentanthology
- contained in The Best of the Bolos: Their Finest Houranthology
- contained in The Military Dimension: Mark IIcollection