Editing Dominion of the Iron Watchers (section)

====The Personalities====
The AI that rules over the Dominion suffers from data degradation and numerous other problems due to it's home in the core of the galaxy. The radiation, temporal effects of black holes, and other stellar phenomenon mean that the AI must regularly recompile it's base personality every few decades or centuries (if it is lucky). After each recompiling, the AI tends to take on a new name, while claiming that it has always been known as such. It's personality sees definite changes, though once again, it will not notice them, and attempts to inform it tend to result in the AI madly lashing out against the being or beings attempting to tell it this, before losing recollection of the event if it does not fit with its current personality, or otherwise justifying it if it does. Always though, it has a fascination with the weaving of flesh and steel, and a fascination with the gathering of more knowledge.

These are the most common personalities (and their names) that crop up between recompiling events.

The Electric Eye is a consumate scientist. Nothing else matters to the Electric Eye, everything is a tool towards understanding the universe. It does not go out of its way to cause suffering, but it will not go out of its way to provide comfort to its subjects unless it is conductive to the experiment.

The Watcher is less about study and more about observation. Happy enough to quietly set up its experiments in a way subjects will barely notice and just watch how it reacts.

The Iron Eye would, in my mind, be a cross between a military commander and weapons research. Not violent for its own sake, but it takes a sort of sick joy in testing out new weapons and strategic permutations on enemies of the Dominion.

The Calculator for some reason (perhaps the name) I saw as being the most insane of the personas. Perhaps it is formed of damaged circuitry, or perhaps it is the oldest persona and the saner ones are fragments of it. The Calculator wants to learn and test and study like all the others in equal measures, but due to its damage it has flawed logic. Experiments it conducts can't actually test the hypothesis presented. It inflicts strange and convoluted scenarios upon test subjects for reasons that make sense only to itself.

SHE. The nurturing side. Somewhat analogous to Big E's attitude SHE tries to focus progress towards attaining a higher standard of living and preserve Humanity from being destroyed. This Alter created a complex education, training and drug therapy plan to allow humans to wring the absolutely best from their flesh, sometimes even without mechanical augmentation. This gave rise to the Crimson Shadows, a class of humans trained to infiltrate and undermine other human populations.