So they also know very well what kind of negative impact it would have on humanity if, before the war even began, a human fleet were wiped out by the Mechanical Race.
Although only a handful of people even know about Chen Ming's fleet, and even if it got completely wiped out, it'd still only be known to those few.
But from the Mechanical Race's point of view, Chen Ming is a Psychic candidate who has received the Empire's orders to conduct external expansion.
If someone like that were to be lost, it would definitely be a heavy blow to the Empire, which makes their actions logical.
This can fully explain why the Mechanical Race did what they did.
This shouldn't really count as Chen Ming being narcissistic, because the Mechanical Race does indeed know of his existence.
But this explanation also has its own problems.
