A well-equipped machine shop, paired with a smelter, and some stacks of blueprints inscribed in iron plates, could probably be used to produce all it’s component parts from naturally-occurring materials. Of course, it would be dependent on human crafters and technicians… but there are species of insect which can only reproduce parasitically, so that’s not an automatic disqualification.
A well-equipped machine shop, paired with a smelter, and some stacks of blueprints inscribed in iron plates, could probably be used to produce all it’s component parts from naturally-occurring materials. Of course, it would be dependent on human crafters and technicians… but there are species of insect which can only reproduce parasitically, so that’s not an automatic disqualification.