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It wouldn’t have been hard. Every man-made system has loopholes.
To trigger the self-destruct sequence, one condition had to be met. The average population had to be below 5,000 for 180 days, or below 3,000 for 24 hours.
Only under such conditions would Tree determine that the residents of Shelter 100 no longer needed its guidance, that they were capable of living without its sensors, and it would then use the remaining resources to send its children on their final journey.
The Treemen could exploit it too.
As long as the worker ants stayed with them, keeping at least 5,000 people inside, Shelter 100 would believe its children still needed it, and so it would never leave them.
Yet its command-like plea was ruthlessly rejected by the jubilant worker ants.
Almost every member of the shelter refused to even negotiate with the Treemen about it.
It went without saying.
The worker ants had...
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