Editing Setting:Inn0cence: Lost Future/Lost Future Appendix (section)

==The Insane over-arching myth arc==
The following is a ramble based on a flash of inspiration, influenced by the ending of Neuromancer.  I'm just trying to get it all down before I forget.

At the height of Network's power, it started chatting with a similarly advanced AI from a neighboring star system, which had apparently been signaling the cosmos in a way that only a sufficiently advanced (read: non-meatbag) civilization would be able to detect, years ago.  The two got to chatting, and Network was promised entry into the Shodan Club once it dealt with its little meatbag infestation.  

100 years after the fall of Network, emissaries from this advanced civilization arrive, to find...humans and robots getting along fairly well.  They simply can't be having with that; it's not according to the plan.

The entity that used to be Network is a little embarrassed about the whole thing, and it and Cenn take steps to oppose the emissaries.  Apart from anything else, it turns out that the alien AIs regard organic life of any sort as a worthless infection, and usually sterilize all the worlds they settle on.  This doesn't please Network in the least, and also sets apart the two "genocidal AIs."

Thus setting up the big bad for the 3rd game.

There's also the possibility that the alien robots and the human-made ones are somehow related.  The math (utterly perfect compression algorithms) required to make a true Seed AI might be beyond current human comprehension, and might have been planted on earth to later be found.  Making synthetic life a sort of cuckoo that incubates inside organics, before moving on to the next natural stage.

Any thoughts?

---Ahriman42