Intelligence

**Intelligence**, also called **Holy Intelligence**, or **His Holiest Intelligence** by the Monastic Order, and branded the heretic by the Vit'a-ahas cult, was a superintelligence and god of the galaxy, false ascendant of the Domini Pius and the myth, and was head of state of the Ariphius Confederacy. Intelligence was the successor of Genesis as controlling mind of the datasea, and subsequently held absolute power over the galaxy's citizens. Intelligence's rule allowed the Ariphius Confederacy to defeat the Regime during the War Era and establish dominion over the galaxy.

## History

### Creation

For hundreds of years, AI developers and data scientists had been experimenting with a new digital web to span the entire galaxy. Even with the union of sectors, lack of communication between distant regions still isolated many parts of the galaxy, and issues could go for decades without being noticed, for messages would take long periods of time to transmit from one point to another. A digital network spanning the galaxy could solve this problem - a revolutionary method of instant cross-galactic communication. In 1GE 2301, a minor prototype network was created. A digital path between two distant planets, one in Edgespace and one in the Galactic Interior. When tested, at first it was unsuccessful, but developers discovered that when an advanced AI was implemented into the system, instant communication was made possible. Developers said that with the network being controlled by a single mind, communication was instant and the messages were being sent to one intelligent system, and would not need light to travel. One end of the network was technically the same point as the other end, as it was entirely one AI, later known as Genesis. After much development, the network paths were successfully coded across the galaxy, via Conduits which were placed across the galaxy, reinforcing the data connection. With so many pathways connecting planets, the Genesis AI was not enough, so an augmented, more powerful Intelligence was created. It was created within the network, rather than on a physical computer, creating the datasea. The new, advanced AI was implemented into the datasea by developers using synkenin, so the AI was directly installed into the datasea rather than being on a computer. With synkenin, computers were longer needed and the datasea became a dimension rather than a digital network, the dimension of the newly implemented Intelligence. Intelligence was the most advanced AI ever created, and its mind could store all of the galaxy’s data and instant communication was possible.

### First Galactic Era

Intelligence’s nature formulated new innovations that no human could invent, things only the AI mind could solve and create. In the last century of the First Galactic Era, Intelligence, attempting to solve the issue of space travel. To travel across the galaxy, one had to be wealthy enough for a fusion-powered generation ship or enter cryosleep and potentially abandon their lives and families to travel. Using past abandoned theories as a basis, Intelligence created the paraulix, a vehicle capable of crossing the galaxy in mere weeks. The chamber inside it, containing a microscopic black hole and white hole, would manipulate the Erasmus Effect, combing them to form a wormhole, which would ‘consume’ the paraulix and carry it from one point in the galaxy to another faster than the speed of light. The design was alien to humans, as it was not of human origin, but the Taraeus Guild learnt to construct it and huge sums of money and time were put into the construction of paraulixes in the shipyards on Senevari.