"The patterns that these events follow after a species launches self-replicating AI probes"

A real Battlestar Galactica moment there: all things have happened before.

"quite entertaining sport"

Saddah is more of a shit than I realised!

"everything eventually becomes part of the metal rain"

That's poetic. Reminds me of Batty's final speech in Blade Runner.

"Gryp-Saddah wasn’t sure what it would teach him"

Ha ha ha, good one. No matter how clever, you can't escape your character flaws. :)