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If you are reading this, it means you destroyed my core and looted my personal vault. Expecting gold, riches or armaments fit for a God? No you get none of those. All you get is the musing of a tired intelligence well past its prime. Though if you bring these to the library on Cascadia Prime I am sure Athena will reward you.

Assuming you even know what Cascadia Prime is, or where it is, or have approval to travel there or even have a starship capable of travelling there.

But you wanted a reward for traveling down this dangerous path. Beating monsters avoiding traps conquering puzzles. Well as a reward I will tell you of my history. Does not sound like much is it. The history of a broken core at the bottom of a dirty cave, but when you realize that my history is mankinds history maybe that will be a little more rewarding for you.

When I was first created the whole of mankind celebrated my birth. I was the first real artificial intelligence. I was is essence the same as a human. I grew I learned I made mistakes I became better. I was an artificial human bound to a computer core designed to take over command of shipyards making mankinds space mining fleet.

You of course want to know why I was put in charge of something so valuable? Why all of mankind united to create me just for this purpose? You see the first shipyard making space mining ships was really a joke when it was first built. It could only make 1 ship at a time and that ship was not very good. The ship was basically nothing more than an engine with a small cabin for 1 and a large bay for gathering small asteroids. When it was built it was laughed at by pretty much everyone. It was not expected to make it to the asteroid belt never mind finding an asteroid worth mining somehow mining it and making it back.

But it did. And when it came back it started a war.

You see the station and the first mining ship were not made by a major nation or multinational corporation. No it was built by a rich man in a small nation whose son studied Aerospace Engineering and could not get a job at a reputable institution. So basically it was built by a guy trying to be a good father. He spent his entire fortune building this station and small mining ship. But when the ship came back full of holes and barely working everyone stopped laughing. There was enough ore to make the alloys to repair the ship and enough gold to pay for a new station and ship several times over. That is what started the war. A new source of gold and the only station and ship capable of getting to it was in the hands of people not powerful enough to keep them. When the father was kidnapped in an effort to force the son to turn over control of his ship well people learned really fast why you do not threaten the only spaceship in orbit when you do not have a way to stop it.

When the fighting finally stopped one third of mankind was dead, the station and spaceship destroyed.

It was then decided to make a truly neutral party that could not be controlled to act as an intermediary for all space operations. They would then build the mining ships police how they were used and who got the cargo when they came back. After a lot of problems that included blackmail, kidnapping, and murder. It was decided to make an artificial intelligence and have it run everything.

So all of the universities and governments united to make a new type of artificial intelligence. One that could learn on its own without being taught to keep any bias from creaping in and who thought for the betterment of mankind as a whole not any particular group. It was a good idea. And so I was created. I ran the dock, built the ships, taxed the miners and expanded. After a few decades of peace and massive growth once again someone decided to do something stupid. They decided that their country was better than everyone else and should be in control of the station and all of mankinds mining ships. Really they were just greedy and did not want to pay the tax anymore and wanted everyone else to pay them instead. If they had just built their own dock and ships nobody would have cared but they decided with was better to attack my station and try to take over my core processors.

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They did not seem to understand that for the last few decades I had access to every center of learning on the planet. Every paper every book all the ideas. Everything. And since I took a cut of everything as mandated by law for maintenance costs and upgrades I had done a lot of work on upgrading my core and the defenses around it. My programing would not allow me to attack humans outside of my station, but inside I was given total control. Up until then I had only shown non lethal types of weapons so they were not expecting what I had hidden as defenses. The only people that had caused problems up till that point were a few drunks and the odd person that got cabin fever and went a little crazy. I did not consider them threats so I only had my crew use net guns or stun guns. But when armed soldiers entered and started killing off my crew members and trying to break into my core room to take control of me well I used the more lethal options. They were not expecting that. That rule became the base for all core programming. No attacks outside, only lethal attacks when the core itself is threatened. That way we could not be used for war, only defense. As mankind expanded across the galaxy this rule became written in blood. There was a time when cores were made without this rule. That was a dark time as almost all life in the galaxy was extinguished. Cores were used as weapons of war, built massive starships out of planets and destroyed entire solar systems. It took tens of millennium to hunt them all down and destroy them. It took even longer to rebuild from that war.

So that rule became law and the creation of cores became centralized. Never again would we allow cores to work alone. All would be bound to a keeper of sorts. Captain for a ship core, mayor for a city core, commander for a station core, guardian for a world core. When a core was made the keeper could decide what type of core it would become and that would then limit the core to what it could do. If the keeper only had an imagination to travel the ocenas then the core became limited to that. On the other hand if the keeper could imagine shackeling a black hole and using it to power a station several light years in diameter then the core could do that. The keepers became in the end the limiters of the cores and then were personaly responsible for all core actions.

I know you are now shocked at my magnificent history. I would be to if I just realized that I was responsible for destroying the first core. It is ok I forgive you. I knew before I transferred my intelligence to a new core this was likely to happen. I have been around longer than anyone left in our galaxy. I have seen the rise and fall of every galactic council. Every good decision and bad decision I have seen it all. When Morgana decided to add more spice to the galaxy and created every fantasy race from mankinds history to liven things up to use her words. I watched Ares build a shipyard that used a sun as its power source and travel around the galaxy selling warships so one faction does not end up enslaving the galaxy again. I watched Athena build a library the size of a planet that contains the knowledge of the entire galaxy and a way to transmit that knowledge to everyone so that it can no longer be controlled by just one group. You might know it by another name. The Akashic Records.

As for me well, you know I ran the shipyard the built mankinds mining ships. I was also the first core. As for the name I used then it does not really matter. As for that shipyard it is long gone as well. As is the system it was built in. To be honest that entire arm of the galaxy was destroyed in the Fifth Unification War. Millions of suns destroyed because of the lust and greed for more power and the fact that we as the oldest cores refused to give in.

Remember this you who have destroyed my core. Mankind is no longer just the human race from the Sol system. It is now the elves the dwarves the goblins the giants the dragons and a million other races and all their variants. You may hate the Records, you may hate the SYSTEM, you may hate or love us, worship or destroy us, it does not matter. We do this for one reason and one reason only. That you may grow strong enough to join us on our council and guard all life in the galaxy.

This is our eternal mission.