Well, if we forgot how to make CPUs, can't we just repurpose or reprogram the GPUs, GPUs and npus to do a similar job until we remember how to make CPUs again?
To be honest, turning the cross, in the following decades, into a forbidden symbol, because of the christofacist evil that's happening in the US right now, would be a boon
Let's see: Stolen the lands of lithoid species, purged some cute murder geckos that tried to annihilate my civilization, purged some sentient fungi, purged some space foxes because they were in my future property, deactivated some ancient robots, turned sentient plants into food, purged some xenos that dared to look human but not quite and blew up some stars for funs.
I can blame whoever I want. I am a protected minority in the world, colonizer.