RE: Toshiro
I knew the whole "rogue AI = KILL ALL HUMANS/galactic conquest" association would be brought up by someone. I'm just glad you didn't mention evil robot army and/or fleet. >.>
I specifically mentioned the lack of serious industrialization on the Relay Moon to avoid this cliche association. Keep in mind stuctures are confined to a single moon thereby meaning even if it were heavily industrialized it likely wouldn't surpass a conventional, well-populated world in terms of productivity, let alone an entire system of planets, or let alone interstellar nations. The volume of a single moon and even that has sparse industrialization...industrial output can only be so much.
If that isn't enough the lack of trade further cripples the economic strength; I specifically mentioned computing parts and laboratory equipment as the primary import for this very reason (raw materials as staple imports could be mistakenly seen as a potential to build aforementioned evil robot army/fleet in secret). On top of that I added the note that many of its research projects are in fact failures, so as to prevent the impression it generates high revenue. While the Free State pays for data, a research organization with a relatively high failure rate can't generate all that much income.
Additonally there is also the fact that such a massive industrial undertaking as even a basic military on something as small as a moon would generate relatively large amounts of smoke, fumes, industrial waste, scrap metal, large thermal energy signatures, and so on. That's not including the massive manufacturing equipment imports needed to do the above in a short period of time. Given the curiosity and/or speculation regarding the Relay Moon, hiding such a large-scale industrial effort from the occasional snoop would be nigh impossible.
Oh, and I did mention the decaying quality of the facilities, and the poor lack of planning by Invalid, if that helps any.
Finally, I'd like to point out the purposely-engineered quality of the local defenses. i.e., double-edged drones that attack anyone including their creator, or railroad guns that show woeful foresight for battlefield conditions. Both to show reflect the lack of military experience in what few assets it has, and thereby poor combat ergonomics/engineering.
Also, will it help if I promise not to raise an unprovoked robot army/fleet in the foreseeable future? Unless something unexpected happens, at least. The reason I don't like to pre-plan plots is because I can't predict (and dislike metagaming to forcefully control the outcome of) IC events. Theoretically, any nation could super-militarize after their creation, unless you're going to do something as place OOC restrictions on what they are/aren't allowed to do IC. Theoretically, any nation could have a xenophobic leader rise to power and begin a xenocidal rampage.
RE: Moony
I'd point out that the Abwehran already have access to CSEIA, a professional and experienced research corporation. And the fact that, as mentioned in the article, the lack of economic strength and relatively high failure rate of experiments (possibly due to the fringe nature of the topics it chooses) means it shouldn't hypothetically be able to push the tech level much higher than CSEIA, if it can even match them.