Thanks for the kind words, and for the continued interest in the game. Some answers below!
> Do you see in your head also the small details. I can paint images, and process involves pinning down an idea that you see in mind, making multiple mini sketches, doing linework for big sketch in detail, shading light and dark, applying colour. Is there a similar process for writing.
No. I'm much more verbal than visual -- for example, I learn by listening (or doing) but very seldom by watching. So usually for me a visual description starts from an *idea* I want to convey, and then the "visuals" (that is, the words describing the visuals) are just an effort to convey that idea, rather than starting from some clear vision of the thing.
> who are the Legion? I gathered they rule Urbani city and sent a force of robots to attack Metropol.
Legion was the AI in charge of Urbani's military. That's why the Urbanian soldiers in Metropol are named 187th Legionbuilt and so forth.
> Are these ones responsible for a certain machine killing virus I hear about in the story. (I think I missed out a big part of the plot in the game after messing up at the huge robot but hey it just adds to replayability),
I don't think Legion created Thanatos (the virus) or was in charge of it, but there's nothing concrete on this. The ship that was equipped with Thanatos was meant to be crewed by humans, though, and only was managed by AI because the humans were gone.
> not sure what cycles are exactly. ... So Im guessing its some kind of resource of processing like memory is a resource.
Yeah, they're instruction cycles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instruction_cycle> Is it common nature of the big (or all) robots to be (I guess) selfish like that, or just something Factor is.
It is not 100% clear that Factotum is telling the truth -- I'm still not sure myself whether Factor actually is "sleeping" or is destroyed, and whether the "recall" order that brought all the Factorbuilts home was part of MetroMind's solution for reducing energy costs in Metropol (as opposed to Factor wanting his "children" with him). Assuming Factotum is telling the truth, I think the answer is probably that Factor thinks he built better than anyone else, and there's no reason for inferior machines to stick around. Factor is generally very unsentimental (as Oswald notes when he complains that Factor made his robots name themselves).
> Also why is Metromind seemingly power hungry and unethical?
MetroMind was (probably?) the first major AI in Metropol -- it makes sense that an automatic rail system would come first, in fact the Paris Metro has such a system (it was part of my inspiration for MetroMind), I think. When she was unveiled, she was heralded as "Progress" -- you can see that on a poster in the hallway leading to her old control room.
You have a chance to talk with her a little bit more about her motivations if you resolve the Goliath puzzle another way -- I can spoil it, or you can see for yourself, let me know!
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