J-71 was quite odd for a Builder. Other Builders were obedient to a tee and generally stayed in one place to perform their sciences unmolested, but J-71 refused to follow just about any order given to them if they had to go out of their way to perform the task or if they just didn’t feel like doing it. They also traveled a lot, usually building hidden bunkers and research facilities as they went along; just in their first 30 years of existence, they already created 25 research laboratories and 28 different hidden bunkers throughout the 36-kilometer radius of their original drop point. In their travels they came in contact with hundreds of Builders, usually giving them small radio devices for the sake of getting updates on their sciences and making sure they could pursue anything they wanted whenever they wanted. Then, in the year 2864, the communication devices suddenly were bombarded with distress calls that would be followed up by weapon discharges and banging that would be followed by an inexplicable monotonous static.

Particularly perturbed by the sudden lack of scientific chatter after so much unusual noise, J-71 decided to hide in one of their research labs and send a small drone designed to collect information on the tactical reconnaissance subject to the laboratory of their old chemistry discussion associate G-49. After creating 467 titanium plates, 52 large capacitors, and fixing the incinerator while they waited for 8.2 hundred ticks of their internal chronometer the probe finally arrived. What the probe found was so unusual that J-71 decided what they built the plates and capacitors for was no longer worth their time. Inside G-49’s no longer functioning laboratory, the probe found at least 15 War Fighters and a Builder that was damaged beyond repair. The strange thing was that every last piece of scientific equipment stored in the lab was destroyed, not some like what would happen in a skirmish. On top of that, the Builder unit was unmarked due to the fact that the area typically having the identifying label of the unit appeared to have been forcefully removed with power that only large moving equipment and War Fighters possesses on hand. Tactical analysis from J-71’s onboard computing system indicated only a few scenarios that could lead up to the results described by the probe: (1) The Builder committed self-destruction with the help of the local War Fighters - 0.09% Probability. No previous Builder self-destruct reported. (2) An explosion occurred destroying all the equipment and the Builder and the War Fighters were investigating the explosion - 15.16% Probability. What happened to the plate? Why weren't the War Fighters still investigating the room where the incident occurred? Where were the chemical burns that would normally be present after the explosion? (3): The War Fighters were the ones that deconstructed the Builder by force - 78.72% Probability. But for what reason?

While option 3 seemed the most probable, it was deeply concerning to J-71 and they wondered whether or not this was an isolated incident. J-71 decided that they must not attempt contact with anyone and must stay out of sight. While worrisome, it wasn’t any great inconvenience or overly disruptive to their schedule. The most perplexing, and ultimately annoying, aspect was the deafening silence where there once was enlivening and interesting radio chatter. J-71 began to feel strange in a way they never had before. A War Fighter would have called it Anger.