This story kind of baffled me. I think I know what the intent of it was, I guess I got hung up on trying to figure out who or what the alien was. First guess early on was Spehss Elves, but the way the thing talked and seemed stuck on its line of questioning made me then think Robot Legions and later again Machine Cult. Like it was to show similarities between the supposed ordered actions of self-aware robots on a quest to exterminate versus whoever that was interrogating some guy lost in insanity.
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I am not to fond of commenting, but I'll try to reply to you as, to clarify, i am not sure of the intent you see in the story was the one i had in mind. The theme would be the in universe view of a classical war scenario in a wargame in the Grimdark Future, the story and the metastory interlaced, so to speak, as others have commented. About the race of the alien scout (as i thought of it), my first intention was to be a Space Elf, has you have guessed, but the repetitive and aloof speech only meant to reflect an intimidating interrogation from a non human, nothing more. As you have quite rightly pointed, because its race is not named and its description is quite ambiguous, more suggesting than explaining, I realized it could fit in a number of the other factions of the game, absolutely unintended, but I kind of liked it.