The motivation of the Machines was simple, they considered true humanity the perfect fruit of human science that overcame the errors of a race capable of the greatest atrocities, an unjust race, a race that was based on a society where only a few could really enjoy comforts. The organic human had to be extinguished so that his perfect children could surpass them and survive. The attack by the Saitans gave them the perfect opportunity to give that race a push towards the abyss.
Osiris, or rather the substitute of the grand admiral placed by the machines, was waiting for the news that the Olympeion family and specifically the intelligence officer had dealt two hard blows to the plans they had. Of more than three thousand infiltrated agents, there were barely twenty who maintained their alibi.
With his power now omnipresent in the empire, no one dared to question in the intelligence services the need for an investigation of an ally, even if it was at the highest levels.