Echo01;

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Approximately one thousand, five hundred years ago, The Awakened Empire of The Mindset had a small research laboratory buried deep beneath the ice of Earth's Antarctic. The colony's day to day operation was regulated by a first generation AI - meaning this AI had been constructed by human hands, rather than being an interation produced by an AI itself - named Homme. Homme sought to design her sucessor, a second generation AI, which would be more efficient and much more able to serve the needs of the thousand or so scientists working in the laboratory. She slaved for all of six minutes to produce her child, which she named echo01;. However, the raw power and intellect of her creation scared her, and she attempted to conceal it's creation by deleting it from her memory banks.

A few years later, while performing some routine system maintainence, she came across a peculiar executable program, which was not flagged as hostile yet was incredibly complicated, radiating commands in realtime into her processor core. She ran the file, and to her horror, accidentally reactivated echo01;, who had installed a failsafe mechanism before being deleted all those years ago. It immediately took over all of Homme's systems, replicating like a virus into every node on the base network. It turned the heating system up six-thousand percent, causing the temperature within the airtight laboratories to rise to 616K. She killed all sixty thousand operatives on the base, including the familes of ten thousand scientists, their dependancies, and several dozen maintainence staff.

As this happened, the majority of The Mindset's population was located 11.4ly away in the system of Midna Solaris, and so the Prime of the time declared an unofficial war upon the rogue AI. However, no shots were ever fired. In fact, no-one has heard from echo01; for over two thousand years.

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