perfect and efficient machine. I use electric energy directly. I'm made of strong metal. I never sleep. And I can work in any temperature. You can't possibly have made me. Obviously no being can create another one of much higher quality than itself." Donovan jumped up. "All right, you piece of metal, if we didn't make you, who did?' Very good, Donovan," Cutie said seriously. "That was in fact the next question. My creator must be more powerful than myself, and so there was only one possibility." Donovan and Powell looked puzzled Cutie continued. "What is the centre of the solar station? What do we all serve?' Donovan looked at Powell, surprised "I think that this metal fool is talking about the Energy Converter.