Soulweaver

The Soulweaver was a who lived during the final centuries of the . A highly skilled , she was lifelong friends with a rate from her homeworld. During the war, the Miner requested that she help him mutate his body into that of a so that he could aid in the fight against the Flood. Though such an act violated key laws and taboos of the , the Soulweaver did as requested; her actions were condemned as a crime against the by her fellow Lifeworkers and she was very nearly stripped of her position within the Ecumene. Only the intervention of the commander known as the Dekanate spared the Soulweaver such a fate. She and the Warrior-Servant she had helped mutate became officers within the Dekanate's expeditionary fleet and served with distinction on the front lines of the desperate conflict. Near the end of the war, Soulweaver's friend rebelled against the Dekanate and attempted to assassinate her. As a result, he was branded an outcast and given the demeaning title of "Wanderer." Captured by the Dekanate, the Wanderer was and his consciousness preserved within a device. Though all of the Wanderer's friends and allies rejected him, the Soulweaver would not abandon her friend and instead requested that she be allowed to share his fate. The Dekanate complied and the Soulweaver was composed and stored within the same cryptum as the Wanderer. The condemned Lifeworker's consciousnesses escaped the destruction wrought by the and spent the next millennia contemplating the arrogance that had been her people's undoing.
Although Soulweaver was initially able to maintain her individual consciousness during her imprisonment, her essence gradually deteriorated until she was a barely-conscious shell of her former self. Shortly after the end of the , an task force recovered the cryptum containing Soulweaver's composed essence and brought it to a research facility on . In the chaos following the uprising Soulweaver's cryptum came into contact with fragments of the deceased Opis. The former Lifeworker's diminished essence merged with Opis's fragments, taking on much of the AI's memories and personality. Reborn in the digital form of an artificial intelligence, Soulweaver set out to locate Wanderer amidst a galaxy in turmoil.
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