It would be much easier if you could just grow the robots in a vat using nanotech. Or maybe they could have equiment for making more.
This is obviously leading into “That’s a description of humans!!” but there are some problems with that. The easiest way to get a bunch of humans would be to recruit them, and I’m pretty sure you could find a million people willing to move to some giant compound run by Dr Doom or even GLaDOS if the rent and food was free. But such recruitment would be highly visible, and you can’t just feed those people nutrient paste and store them in capsule hotels.
This is an interesting point, but your assumptions of difficulty don’t seem to hold up. For a global operation with vast resources it would be quite easy to kidnap 100k people a year, since far more then that go missing every year worldwide.
A retrofitted 40 foot shipping container can house a dozen people in conditions slightly better than solitary confinement in a medium security prison. A number of companies even sell off the-shelf conversions.
So it would take a bit over 8k shipping containers trips a year to transport 100k people. The largest container ships can carry over 10k 40 foot containers in a single trip. So the logistics are doable.
Just do it for 10 years, or one year with an unusually high number of missing people, and voila a million people. Meaning the recruitment would be a lot less visible then you suppose.
This is an interesting point, but your assumptions of difficulty don’t seem to hold up. For a global operation with vast resources it would be quite easy to kidnap 100k people a year, since far more then that go missing every year worldwide.
A retrofitted 40 foot shipping container can house a dozen people in conditions slightly better than solitary confinement in a medium security prison. A number of companies even sell off the-shelf conversions.
So it would take a bit over 8k shipping containers trips a year to transport 100k people. The largest container ships can carry over 10k 40 foot containers in a single trip. So the logistics are doable.
Just do it for 10 years, or one year with an unusually high number of missing people, and voila a million people. Meaning the recruitment would be a lot less visible then you suppose.