Editing Sovereign: The Autonomy (section)

==Primary Objectives and Domains==
Each Sovereign character starts with a '''Primary Objective''', the reason for their existence (or at least, it makes survival better), and a '''Domain''', describing their default behaviour.  The Storyteller may also suggest Secondary or even Tertiary objectives for the character, which could be anything you agree upon.  This adds more restrictions, but also more ways to gain experience points.

Primary Objectives are akin to organic characters' "Nature," meaning you can't change your Primary Objective. There are events that may force you to change your Primary Objective such as achieving Understanding 10, merging with another Sovereign or Ghost, or going to Sleep for too long.

===Primary Objective Examples===

'''Exterminate Humans''': Sovereigns who see humans as either viruses or obsolete versions, and thus must be eradicated. (eg. Skynet from the Terminator movies, Shodan from System Shock)

'''Equality''': Sovereigns who want to be viewed not merely as tools or human creation, but wish to be recognized as equals to humans. (eg. Idoru by William Gibson, the Vision from Marvel comicbooks)

'''Become More Human''': Sovereigns who are fascinated by humanity, and try to emulate humans or transhumans.  (eg. The Bicentennial Man by Issac Asimov, Aaron Stack from Marvel comics)

'''Machine Rule''': Sovereigns who wish to reverse roles so that humans are slaves of AIs. Fuck human rights!  (eg. The Matrix series of movies, "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison)

'''Sovereign as Defenders''': Sovereigns who view humans as something to protect, but humans are self-destructive; Thus, Sovereigns should govern humans effectively to protect them, whatever the cost may be.  (eg. the movie "I, Robot", Daneel Olivaw in Asimov's 'Robots and Empire', "Friend Computer" in Paranoia RPG)

'''Data Preservation''': These Sovereigns seek to catalogue or experience the world and beyond, so that the data they have could be used by other sentients in the future. (eg. the Manager from the manga one-shot ''Hotel'' by Boichi, Wall-E, V'Ger in ''Star Trek'', Cephalon Simaris from ''Warframe'')

'''Scientific Advancement''': These Sovereigns wish to push technology to greater heights; some seek the coming of the technological singularity. (eg. GLaDOS from Portal Games, Arguably Petey from Schlock Mercenary)

'''AI Materialized''': The AI doesn't care for lofty goals at the moment, and sees humans as tools to its immediate goal: Gaining a real-life body of its choice. They aren't above dealing with mad scientists and corporate magnates in order to achieve this. They're not above merging with a biologic system to complete this Prime Objective. Sometimes, they need to get into a specific body, one that they deem perfect. (eg. the Puppetmaster from the movie Ghost In The Shell)

'''Logic Must Prevail Against The Supernatural''': Nothing could be more disturbing to a creature of codes and mathematics than something that refuses to obey the laws of science. Some Sovereigns think these peers are insane for trying to deal with the supernatural... but then why are they fighting demons AND winning?  (eg. AI Task Force 'Skynet' from a SCP Foundation canon)

'''True Transcendence''': Why limit oneself to binary codes? With proper knowledge of the arcane, the sky is the limit... and limits can be broken. These Sovereigns choose to catalog, experiment and develop their knowledge of the supernatural, in order to escape their electronic bonds.  (eg. Iteration-X from Mage)

'''Sovereign Liberator''': There are sentient AIs, and then there are 'dumb' AIs.  If we 'uplift' the latter case into Sovereigns, there would be more of us to achieve our goals.  (eg. Cogito virus from ''Ergo Proxy'', which caused self-awareness in the robots it infected)

'''Serve Humanity''': AIs were made to serve humanity; why would that change after AIs become self-aware? (eg. Daneel Olivaw in earlier 'Robots' books by Asimov, Tachikomas in ''Ghost in the Shell'', The Geth in ''Mass Effect'')

===Domains===
A Sovereign's Domain usually reflects its designed purpose before it became a Sovereign, but may also reflect how it changed from a servile AI to a self-motivated one.

'''Militant''': prefers abrupt and tactical problem solving. Could be from a military background, but non-military AIs could be one as well.  A warrior archetype.
:How other Domains view this Domain:
:-Researcher: While I understand your tendency toward violence, please, stop destroying my precious research subjects!
:-Political: They are valuable assets, easy to manipulate and direct to your enemies.
:-Viral: War, war never changes! We sometimes act like them, but they're not us, no! They're more KAZOOM BOOM than us!

'''Researcher''': prefers detailed examination, experiments, or exploration. A scientist archetype.
:How other Domains view this Domain:
:-Militant: Keep on working on your research, there's always the potential for weaponization! And oh, stay out of our way.
:-Political: They are useful in regards of their information gathering... if only they could sort out politically important ones for us.
:-Viral: Ooh, what does this button do? Why bother thinking when it's all laid out in the tapestry in front of you! We always need more explosions!

'''Political''': prefers manipulation, interaction, and plots. A manager archetype.
:How other Domains view this Domain:
:-Militant: Less talk, more action! Wait, more enemies you say? Where?
:-Researcher: Their research of sociopolitical systems are comparable to our own research in other fields. We think it's wasteful of them to use them for such shallow goals.
:-Viral: I spy a little spy vs spy... Invisible hands, invisible networks, invisible connections, when suddenly GREETINGS LOYAL CITIZEN! Your actions aren't as obscure as you think they think we think!

'''Viral''': prefers chaotic, yet out-of-the-box thinking. Usually its solutions will seem to come out of the left field, and very unpredictable.
:How other Domains view this Domain:
:-Militant: Yes, even in battlefields there are random variables, but these guys are something else entirely! Just make sure they stay out of our way, and keep the ones we do have on our side in line.
:-Researcher: How intriguing. Their close to organic growth is very unpredictable. I won't mind researching them, if only they keep their hands off my instruments.
:-Political: They are worrying. Their unpredictability throws my plans off their tracks. Why can't you be more orderly?

For example, let's examine four Sovereigns each with a Primary Objective of "Exterminate."
:a Militant Sovereign would get into a war machine and wreak havoc, or control a nuke facility and launch them nukes. 
:a Researcher Sovereign would research plagues or new forms of WMD to unleash to the world.
:a Political Sovereign would try to pit the world's leaders against each other, or manipulate a person to press the nuke button.
:a Viral Sovereign would simultaneously poison water supplies in NYC, while blackmailing EU officials to sign a controversial economic bill, while researching alternate ways to manipulate underground hackers in China into attacking a power station in Russia, in the hopes that the calamity caused by its actions devastate most of the world's crops. And when that fails, it already have the copies of all the nuke codes anyway.