The group here - Alys, Chaz, Hahn, and Gryz - have just been introduced to Seed. They find this quite surprising because Seed is actually an artifical intellegence. They are looking for a person when the introduction is made, only to be told that a massive bank of computers, with monitors and switches, is the "person" that operates and controls the hidden Bio-plant. Their reaction is understandable - how would you react if you met a self-aware computer built a millenia ago?
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