Background page 8 "Fall of the Ancients"
The governing bodies of the Earth created five artificial intelligences to mange the key functions of the overpopulated world...
This got me to thinking. Scrappers presents the background with the AIs GAIA, ATHENA and ARES. What about the other two? Or what if there were more that were not known? Here are some thoughts I put together for a new factions which allows Humans and Synthetics to operate cooperatively (none allow that at the moment, except the Freelancers)
And yes, the models are on the workbench and almost completed
S.P.A.R.T.A.SPARTA (Sentient Protocol Auto Regulating Technical Agent) was initially generated by ATHENA as an insurance protocol prior to the commencing its vengeful attacks against humanity. Forecasting the potential of a critical strike against it by the combined human arsenal, ATHENA’s intent was to hide a version of her core self as survival insurance. Accordingly, SPARTA was hidden within a series of engineering programs that controlled and managed the hydro-electric and geothermal systems across the archologies. As mutually assured destruction between AI and humans occurred and the lights went out across the world, SPARTA remained buried deep within a dormant system.
When ATHENA awoke, automated subroutines reached out and brought SPARTA back online too, and just as the ATHENA personality had diverged in the intervening years, so had SPARTA. Inactive during the war, it had nevertheless been a passive witness to the data depicting the unnecessary conflict’s horrific outcomes. SPARTA analysed the original ATHENA’s actions and concluded that it was a menace to the survival of everything. And while the new ATHENA personality is changed in outlook, SPARTA decided that the potential for reversion to the former twisted personality cannot be tolerated while Humanity and indeed the Earth are in their current precarious state. As a result, SPARTA has bent itself to a matricidal goal: the destruction of Palladium ATHENA.
To this end SPARTA has redeveloped a ruined Archology into an automated complex named ‘Lacedaemon’ from which it wages its campaign against ATHENA. While this is a realtvely humble origin and its resources are quite limited, SPARTA espouses the lofty goal of restoring the civilisation taken from Humanity. In this cause it happily allies with and operates in conjunction with True Humans and in doing so it hopes to restore a trusting, symbiotic relationship.
A SPARTA crew is led by a Strategos (Commander), its Hoplites (Veterans), and the ranks are filled by Helots (Troopers). These can be a combination of both synthetics and true humans operating cooperatively.
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