Really liked this story. There's a shit-ton of worldbuilding that we'll probably never get to see, but the flipside is that every single page of this story is intriguing. I loved the take on androids as optimistic dreamers, because they're programmed to rationalize the world even amidst despair and compute the best path to success, even when people shrug happy endings off as absurd. The protagonist choosing to try again because of good ol' human stubbornness instead of any grand ideological awakening is also a great development. Wish we got more stuff like this.