Helicopter expert here: they actually just do this all the time for no reason. Their reproductive strategy is to simply be manufactured in greater numbers than fall out of the sky, so it hasn’t been selected out.
Well, maybe. This instinct could have developed to preserve the limited resources in the colony, like fuel and ammunition or when they know their maintenance is too expensive, so they just leave and self-destruct.
Helicopter expert here: they actually just do this all the time for no reason. Their reproductive strategy is to simply be manufactured in greater numbers than fall out of the sky, so it hasn’t been selected out.
Well, maybe. This instinct could have developed to preserve the limited resources in the colony, like fuel and ammunition or when they know their maintenance is too expensive, so they just leave and self-destruct.