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== Backstory == The original Berserkers were designed and built as an [[Doomsday device|ultimate weapon]], by a race now known only as the Builders, to wipe out their rivals, the Red Race, in a war which took place at a time corresponding to Earth's [[Paleolithic]] era. The Builders failed to ensure their own immunity from Berserker attack, or they lost those safeguards through an unknown malfunction that changed the Berserker programming, and they were exterminated by their own creation very shortly after the demise of the Red Race. The Berserkers then set out across the galaxy to fulfill their core programmed imperative, which is now, simply, to destroy all life wherever they can find it. A similar premise, though on a much smaller scale, was previously introduced by [[Walter M. Miller, Jr.]], in the 1954 short story "I Made You", described by reviewer N. Samuelson as "A pure '[[The Sorcerer's Apprentice|sorcerer’s apprentice]]' sketch, about a war machine on the moon which kills anyone who comes within its range, including one of its programmers, because its control circuits are damaged."<ref>{{cite journal|url= https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/8/samuelson8art.htm |first=N. |last=Samuelson |title=The Lost Canticles of Walter M. Miller, Jr. |journal=[[Science Fiction Studies]] |volume=3 |issue=1 |date=March 1976}}</ref>
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