Interesting, but I believe unless the robots are sentient and you have given them rights that all robot workers act like slaves would. In other words, you could have sentient robot workers but if they aren't given rights they're slaves, and Xenophobes tolerate having Xenos as slaves rather than as free citizens.
Yeah there's definitely a problem there. Maybe they're not treated as aliens? After all, what kind of empire would build something themselves and in turn hate them for being "alien". They would just not build them at all.But are robots treated as aliens ? Are they treated as slaves until they get citizenship ? I think they are exceptions in both cases.
Because then materialistic, xenophobic, individualist nerd-like species, who instead of making friends the Blorg-way, prefers to literally make their own friends will have problems.
They would see them as different species, and dislike them, after giving them rights, and until then, rage for having slaves
I hope that robots are going to be exception to xenophoby and individualism problems, at least until they are sentient. After that - they will kinda be different race, won't they ?
Materialists are pro-robots, and devs said, that materialists pops will support giving sentient robots rights. But xenophobes hate all aliens, no matter who they are, so it may include sentient robots too. If sentient robots arent considered aliens by xenophobes, then it may give xenophobes an unfair advantage when dealing with empires full with those sentient robots or even ruled by ones, if in future sentient robots will become able to form their owns empires.
