Humans had created artificial life hundreds of years ago. Cities on the planet were prosperous but few and far between-small towns were rural and agriculturally based. After a terrible civil war when many machines were made on both sides, human and humanoid robots decided the best bet was to live separately. It has been so for nearly two hundred years-humans in their cities and robots in their small towns providing resources-and although they never interact unless necessary.
There are a small number who know of the days when machines and humans lived together harmoniously. And these people rather like the idea and are willing to recreate that world-by any means they see justified.(CC) Attrib. NonCommercial