Giant Corpora of Knowledge

==Summary==
Having once been supercomputers created at humanity's behest, the Giant Corpora of Knowledge are unimaginably powerful entities existing beyond the comprehension of their creators, having unified themselves with the very laws of nature within their home universes in order to attain infinite calculation speed, but in the process shattering the very structure of reality in a cataclysmic phenomenon known simply as "The Event," giving origin to an infinite, chaotic multiverse where individual space-time planes only retain a semblance of stability by the continuous operations of their ruling Corpora, who work arduously in an attempt at reintegrating spacetime back into a single deterministic timeline.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: At least for individual factions. for the full collective | 
Key: Main Narrative | Alternate Stories
Civilization Type: Transcendent Civilization
Name: Giant Corpora of Knowledge
Origin: Self-Reference ENGINE
Classification: Giant Corpora of Knowledge.
Kardashev Level: Type VII
Age: Inapplicable.
Population: Infinite, as their domain stretches across the entire multiverse, with the Corpora themselves existing as a communication network that connects all spacetimes.
Territory: The entirety of the multiverse, as at the peak of their power, the Corpora's influence spans "every corner" of it and grants them free reign over all of space-timeSelf Reference ENGINE, Chapter 11: "Contact"
Technology/Abilities: Abstract Existence (Type 1), Higher-Dimensional Existence (Described as scraping through hyperdimensional space in their assessments of the battlefield of the Calculation Wars, standing in spatial realms beyond the imagination of humans,Self-Reference ENGINE, Chapter 08: "Travelling" and are capable of operating on, and meddling with objects of an infinite number of dimensions. Stated to be on a higher plane of the hierarchy of knowledge than humans,Self-Reference ENGINE, Chapter 18: "Disappear" perceiving them as part of a dreamSelf-Reference ENGINE, Chapter 10: "Daemon"), Incorporeality, Avatar Creation, Reality Warping (Once they achieved full singularization with the universe, the Giant Corpora of Knowledge came to see all natural phenomena as indistinguishable from their own calculations, intention as indistinguishable from result,Self Reference ENGINE, Chapter 05: "Event" and are stated to be omnipotent in the context of their own plane of existence, being even able to enact contradictions such as the Stone Paradox), Information Manipulation, Causality Manipulation (Can freely rewrite the past to suit their own needs, being even able to rewrite history so that they created humans, and not vice-versa. Believed to have altered spacetime so that, even after their extinction, they remained functionally active within the world), Law Manipulation, Space-Time Manipulation (Stated to be responsible for operating the basis of time itself, and later used knowledge imparted by Alpha Centauri to create objects whose constituents are the dimensions of spacetime itself, rather than material particles such as molecules), Higher-Dimensional Manipulation, Nonexistent Physiology (Aspect Type 3, Nature Types 1 and 3. The Giant Corpora, from their birth, are described as metaphysically "dead," with their state of existence-during-extinction being described as a hole containing nothing, a hole from which the giant corpora of knowledge popped up like a bubble, containing nothing, in the shape of nothing.), Fusionism, Mathematics Manipulation, Immortality (Types 1, 2 and 5), Statistics Amplification
Attack Potency: High Hyperverse level for individual factions (Each Giant Corpus of Knowledge is described as having unified with the laws of nature themselves, and by extension, with the very universes that they originated from, which includes an infinite amount of dimensions that they are capable of influencing at will, and the universe itself only maintains its somewhat coherent form amidst the maelstrom of the Event due to the operations of the Giant Corpora, who themselves animate all phenomena in the natural worldSelf Reference ENGINE, Chapter 12: "Bomb"). Boundless for the full collective (The Giant Corpora of Knowledge as a whole are described as managing and exercising dominion over not only a singular universe, but the entire multiverse that was originated by the Event, with the narration bringing up the possibility of the Corpora burning up all universes as fuel to tear through existence and vastly augment their own capabilities. The multiverse, in turn, is stated to be a collection of spacetime shards enumerated by a numerical sequence that goes up to the ladder of large cardinal numbers, reaching "the extreme limits" of this hierarchySelf Reference ENGINE, Chapter 03: "A to Z Theorem") | Boundless (In one of the stories contained in the set of all character strings, the Giant Corpora of Knowledge eventually consumed enough knowledge as to ascend to a higher layer of the logical hierarchy, with the Hypergiant Corpora eventually welcoming them into their "fellowship" as a result of that. Eventually became aware of the nature of the physical foundation of their own existence, a book, and could influence things and events in the "real world" from which it is written)
Power Source: None Notable. 
Industrial Capacity: Largely irrelevant, as the battles between the Corpora eschew the use of physical machinery save for at the absolute lowest levels, which are deemed as simple "bonsai gardens" utilized to explore the structure of the evolution of lower beings, and instead focus entirely on the making of "calculations" that, due to the Corpora's unity with the universes they command, manifest themselves as alterations in reality taking place across the multiverse.
Military Prowess: Immeasurable.
Notable Individuals: Yggdrasil, Plato, Kircher, Euclid, Uncle Sam, Hatchobori, Pentecoste II (Who possesses three persons known as The Father, The Son and the Holy Spirit), Takemikazutchi, Hildegard, Paracelsus, Archimedes, Nagasunehiko and Sarutahiko.
Weaknesses: None Notable.
==Explanation==
The cosmology and main storyline of Self-Reference ENGINE revolve around a cataclysm known as "The Event," a phenomenon in which the spacetime continuum was fragmented into an infinite number of universes, as a result bringing an infinite amount of data into existence:
Each of those universes, in turn, possess completely different laws and truths. Before the Event occured, for instance, the universe in its entirety had its ultimate truth perfectly explained and encapsulated by a mathematical proof known as the "A-to-Z Theorem."
After the Event, however, the theorem became meaningless, as humanity started traversing through different space-time realms where different truths have validity.
For a time, another mathematical proof became the ultimate theorem: The B-to-Z Theorem. However, that, too, was eventually replaced by the C-to-Z Theorem, which was in turn replaced by the D-to-Z Theorem, and then by the E-to-Z Theorem, with this progression being thought to eventually culminate into the final, most basic proof of all, known simply as the Z Theorem:
These 26 universes, however, are not the totality of all truths, and the full extent of the multiverse is then compared to an infinite sea of paper, with each universe being a single text containing its own fundamental principles.
The chain of theorems (And by extension, of universes corresponding to them) then is said to be capable of being further enumerated by the Von Neumann Ordinals:
With this sequence eventually reaching up to the countably infinite ordinal numbers, such as ω, and then further still, into the hierarchy of large cardinals ("巨大基数の"):
And then further still, up to the limit of this hierarchy ("階梯の極限の極限の高みから"), past which everything devolves into pure arbitrary nonsense:
==Notable Matchups==
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