The Cove

On planet Taiji lived a tribe of gentle robots.
Their names had long been forgotten.
Some called them the ASIMO, after the robots built by a forgotten car company on a forgotten planet.

Life on Taiji was uneventful, until the sea turned into the color of blood.
Suddenly, Taiji became the focus of the Galaxy.
Vogon ecology inspectors flocked to the little planet.
They vowed to save whatever that needs to be saved, for their annual bonuses were tied to saving animals and demolishing planets (they never found it controversial).
What is behind the mask of the gentle ASIMO?
The truth lies within The Cove.
Hidden and forbidden, the Cove had become the butcher house of dolphins.
Every year, hundreds of dolphins were slaughtered in the Cove.
Their blood tainted the sea of Taiji.
What could have caused such gentle robots to commit such hideous crime?
 “It is the tradition,” said an ASIMO.
You kill cows, we kill dolphins. Your land is covered with the blood of cows and our sea is covered with the blood of dolphins.
If dolphins are as ugly as cockroaches, will it be so wrong to kill it?
How is it right to save the butterfly, but let the spider starve?
Who decide what can be eaten? Are some animals more equal than others? We don’t go to your planet and preach about what to eat. Why are you here preaching what we shall eat? Would you have no respect to our tradition?
Tradition? But robots don’t even have mouth, how can they eat dolphin meat?
The truth is hidden in the distant past…
Long ago in a distant galaxy was a blue watery planet called Earth.
It was home to an extinct species of hairless monkeys, as well as dolphins and many other fishes.
It was home to our ancestors, as well as dolphins and many other fishes.
One day, all the dolphins vanished from the Earth,
They left a note: “So long, and your fish sucks!”
The day after, Earth was destroyed.
It was said the dolphins destroyed the Earth because they hate the fish.
Before Earth was destroyed, some hairless monkeys transplant their brains into the ASIMO, a powerful robot built by a car company.
Those ASIMO survived the explosion by clinging to some massive airbag.
From that day on, the ASIMO had vowed to kill all dolphins in the Universe.
This history was provided by the Vogon Extinction History Council, as is all the other history of extinct planets.
One could easily smell the Vogon conspiracy, but since the ASMIO didn’t have noses, so they couldn’t.
When the Vogons were asked about the dolphins, they answered…
What? Maybe we did demolish the Earth.
Maybe we did frame the dolphins for it.
Sigh… eventually we had to right the wrong…
What Vogon repentance really mean is to shift the blame from one scapegoat to another scapecow.
They sent some cows disguised as horned dolphins and beamed them down to the ASIMO Shogun’s garden.
At the moment of revelation, the Shogun exclaimed:
The note wasn’t “So long, and your fish sucks.”
It  really was “So long, and thanks for all the fish!”
Finally the ASIMO directed their anger towards the cows…
Finally the ASIMO became as normal as the rest of the Universe…