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The robots adhere to a strict hierarchy, with the leader of Verdus, Big Brain, as Class 9 and all others below him.

Civic and military leaders are Class 7, vending and repair droids Class 1 and all others in between.

For unexplained reasons, there appears to be no Class 8.

Partly for Big Brain's amusement, the robots have established a society that mimics the worst elements of Earth including celebrity culture and party politics.

After Big Brain's malfunction a civil war erupts between the human-loyalist First Army and the " anti-hume ", or Denialist, Second.

The First Army, led by a cowardly general and designed by Gibson to resemble the British Tommies of the First World War, is annihilated.

Slade resolves the problem by building a radio transmitter that destroys all the planet's Robots-including Slade's ally " Boots ", the first robot to believe the duo are human.

Slade and Kidd show little remorse for any of the robots, although Smokin ' Joe is repaired and taken back to earth, where Slade receives the " World Medal of Honour ".