Soul Computers

are a form of ensouled technology developed during the 6th century A.U. that allow souls to be created, stored, or manipulated independent of a biological host.
== Applications ==
A soul computer housing an artificial soul can function as a sentient artificially-intelligent supercomputer, far more capable and adaptable than a traditional non-ensouled etheric computer. Soul computers, especially when combined with an understanding of other occult phenomena such as Elder Script, can be powerful tools with applications in divine and occult technologies as well as more mundane fields.
A soul computer can also be used to house a natural-born non-artificial soul, allowing for a form of virtual reality, and even for digital immortality through the "uploading" of one's consciousness. Souls housed within a computer, even those souls created artificially, 'count' as real souls for all divine purposes, though whether they qualify (legally or morally) as real personhood can be a tricky question and a difficult problem for the nations of the post-Leandran era.
== History ==
The theoretical underpinnings of soul computer development trace back to the 4th century A.U., with Rose Clintock and Dr. Garrel the Automaton's Unified Theory of Soul research. Early applications of the Unified Theory included the invention of the Inanis and of Smart Guns. In the 5th century, technological leaps in traditional etheric computing and in ethernet technology further helped to lay the groundwork for the developments of the 6th century.
True soul computers were first invented in the early 6th century A.U. by researchers at the Academy of Saldan. One of their first practical applications was in breaking Valdosian soul contracts (leading to the Soul Contract Security Crisis of ). The Saldanese released their soul computer research to the public in , sparking something of an arms race in the development of soul computer technology among the cosmic great powers. Over the following decades, Aeldrum came to lead the soul computer market and establish many of the longstanding protocols in soul computer technology.
In , the Second Leandran Revelation revealed to the cosmos that soul computers had been used to artificially empower the Kirvan angel Leandra, allowing her to supplant Adarnum and become a major divine power in her own right (and consequently begin the Leandran War). The Leandran Paradise was a soul computer system forming a digital world of artificial souls.
In the post-Leandran era, the Republic of Sermaye came to be politically dominated by artificial souls housed within soul computers, with mortal flesh-based citizens becoming increasingly obsolete and seemingly only used in the making of more computer banks.
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