You have production techniques that can churn out fully-outfitted unmanned fighters in seconds. You have safe AI routines to automate defenses and mining outposts. You do have a few things going in your favor. The AI subcommanders will fight you to the death when they see you - but your glimmer of opportunity comes from quietly subduing those subcommanders without alerting central processing to the danger until it's too late. This inattention is our only hope: a small resistance, too insignificant even to be noticed by the AI central command, has survived. AI death squads stand watch over every planet and every wormhole, the few remaining human settlements are held captive in orbiting bubbles, and the AIs have turned their attention outward, away from the galaxy, to alien threats or opportunities unknown. Humanity has already fought its war against the machines - and lost.
