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Victory Unintentional is a semi-humorous science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov, originally published in Super Science Stories, August 1942, and included in the collection The Rest of the Robots. It is a sequel to a non-robot story, Not Final, published the previous year, and one of the few stories by Asimov to postulate non-human intelligences in the Solar system.
Human colonists on Ganymede send three extremely powerful robots, ZZ One, ZZ Two and ZZ Three, to explore the surface of Jupiter and contact the Jovians.
They discover that the Jovians have a vastly larger population than the humans, since Jupiter is a much bigger planet, and are more advanced scientifically. They are also arrogant, threatening to leave Jupiter, using force-field technology which is under development, and destroy the humans. But they mistake the immensely strong robots for humans. The robots, oblivious to this misconception, unintentionally demonstrate their superiority in several incidents. The Jovians' belief in their own superiority crumbles and, to save face, they swear eternal peace with the humans.
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