(More) Robots

Robots are apparently a big deal in this story. and its only the prologue. Now, instead of a Crystal planet in the middle of some dark nebula, we are now on Mars where a terraforming operation using "Robots" is in effect. This is supposed to be after our astronauts have been mentally 'zapped' by the hyper-intelligent 'crystal' (as pictured way down below), after foolishly trying to cut off a sample (which people exploring planets would probably do)...