Someone made it up out of idleness, and then the newspapers picked it up. You've heard this legend. It says that somewhere - no one knows where exactly - lies the State of Robots, which has set a goal to conquer the entire Universe. For a long time, their armed ships have been prowling through outer space. Robots remake all the celestial bodies they come across to fit the template. First, they destroy the relief, giving the planet a resemblance to a billiard ball; then they surround it with a shell of inert gases. When remaking, robots do not pay any attention to the biosphere. They say that the same fate threatens the Earth...