Strange7 comments on Evolutions Are Stupid (But Work Anyway) - Less Wrong
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A well-equipped machine shop, paired with a smelter, and some stacks of blueprints inscribed in iron plates, could probably be used to produce all it's component parts from naturally-occurring materials. Of course, it would be dependent on human crafters and technicians... but there are species of insect which can only reproduce parasitically, so that's not an automatic disqualification.