Pull the Wires from the Wall

[Vitruvius]

A skyline of remarkable height painted the outline of the metropolis. The architecture was like something right out of an Arthur C. Clarke novel, built to maximum efficiency and simplicity. Yet in the simple design of the buildings and skyscrapers he could see how this city would be something beautiful even if it seemed totalitarian in execution. The life forms were all of differing sizes, colors and alien to one another. Given that his experience with biological sentient life was strictly the human species, seeing varying bipedal and even quadrupedal intelligence was something of a shock to his systems. The cliché that kept prompting was “Does not compute.”

Ironic. True definition. He was a highly sophisticated piece of technology that had been created using the cutting edge of his time. He had been the most advanced creation where he came from and yet this technological wonder before him was beyond his current comprehension. The best analogy he could give would be if a creation of Asimov met life beyond humans and technology greater than what it had been created with. All the storage of information and the full capacity of everything it had been imbued with was suddenly obsolete all at once. No computer could process so much information all at once and not full the sluggish pull of too many processes running simultaneously.

Vitruvius had to start shutting down bits and pieces of his perceptors just so he could focus on more important things. Such as his immediate vicinity. A docking bay built specifically for the gate with two different guards on this side. A pathway to the main sector of the city. Less life forms. Sharper focus. Better performance. The robot dressed in clothes reminiscent of a high fantasy novel walked toward the bustling mega-city of the future. A bigger cluster of buzz words had never passed through his brain since he compiled the 2010's into his storage banks out of sheer boredom as he toiled away in a post apocalyptic wasteland.

Now as had been explained, Coruscant was run by one Emperor Palpatine. This whole place was his to rule and command. However the city was split into vertical tiers and the further down you traveled the more dangerous and lawless it became. Things like organized crime and the black market ran rampant. Sounded fun to explore. But before he went and started looking for trouble, Vitruvius had an immediate plan to get better acquainted with his new surroundings. He needed to visit this spectacular library filled with all the knowledge he would need to learn about Coruscant and key points of history and literature. If this city was as oppressive as he perceived it to be then no doubt the information was carefully selected for its denizens. As a Renaissance Machine he found this deplorable, but he was capable of reading between the lines and make inferences as to what was truth, what was cover up and where the difference lie.