After escaping their wrecked ship they set out to explore the planet, first traveling through an unsettling wilderness and coming upon an abandoned automated factory.

Every kind of dashpot timer has seen use in different technologies, from toasters to automated factory operations.

Examples of constructors include a heat engine (a thermodynamic constructor), a catalyst (a chemical constructor) or a computer program controlling an automated factory (an information constructor).

As populations dropped workers and soldiers began to become scarce, leading the way to widespread development of automated factories and military equipment.

Indeed, engineers struggled to even maintain the automated factories.