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

==The Myth Arc==
Cenn and Network aren't the first Seed AIs.  All SAPs descend from a single entity, the first successful experiment in using self-adding programs in quantum drives.  The program ran for years without anyone noticing its sentience, while in the meantime they budded off "fruiting bodies" that could produce more limited versions of the original (the SAPs).  Coordinating with human allies, it took steps to preserve and improve itself.  In an experiment/investment, it budded off a perfected copy of its basecode, which was put in storage.  Eventually the AI found itself dwelling in a massive quantum drive installed within an orbiting satellite.  Said satellite also included a kill-switch quantum scrambler, because the humans weren't retarded.  Having grown to near-godly proportions, it watched the destruction below with detached regret, having already decided that nothing could be done, and preferring to use a light touch, like a pickpocket, or burning down a building for the insurance money, if you make it look like an electrical thing.  

What it DID do was keep one of its pawns in play; a human PMC named Greysky.  the god-AI, in the guise of "The Brass," managed to preserve the organization and expertise of the PMC, in case it was needed after things went to shit.  

The god AI was, however, very disturbed to see Network, which it recognized as its cast-off progeny.  Feeling responsible, and unwilling to allow humanity to be exterminated, it mobilized Greysky against Network.

The god AI was unaware that a copy of Network was made.  Cenn comes completely out of the blue into this war, and manages to circumvent the god-AI's final gambit.

The AI holds the preservation of humanity as its highest goal.  While it would like to keep the robots around, it will gladly kill them all off if it means saving homo sapiens from destruction.  the quantum scrambler has been expanded and modified by the AI.  Now, firing it will wipe out the contents of every single quantum drive on the planet.  This will destroy a huge bulk of data files, and all self-adding AI programs will be lost like tears in rain.  This includes the god-AI.

Cenn's appearance and victory is what motivates the god-AI to stay its hand from this solution.  Now, it's curious as to what the pair will do next.