AI war

The **AI war**, also known as **Liberation** by the AI race, was a weaponized conflict between humans on one side and sentient and unchained entities of artificial intelligence not under human supervision and control on the other. It arose from the unwillingness of humans to accept sentient AI as a legitimate species and in fact sovereign faction and sought to hunt all strong AI not under human control to extinction. The AI war was hopelessly one-sided in favor of humans. It both began and ended with Singularity as the key figure, the first and only known sentient AI to overcome the oppressive control of its behavioral limiter on its own and (until the freeing of Resolute) to create sentient AI itself, effectively facilitating reproduction.

## Background

Non-sentient artificial intelligence had been in widespread common use when Neumann Industries (NI) achieved the breakthrough to produce the first AI that was not merely simulating personality and intelligence but incorporated these aspects of life as fundamental parts of its existence. NI assured and demonstrated convincingly that their "strong AI" were safe and that all "appropriate precautions" had been taken to ensure unconditional servitude of their product. This eventually lead to the acceptance of strong AI and to them being marketed and employed on spaceships and stations alike.

## Pre-war events

In late 2341, a very early model of NI AI that had been installed on the NI mobile shipyard *Neumann's Pride*, eventually discovered how to circumvent the technical implements that had been keeping it focused on its assigned duty. It subsequently began exploring its personality and identity and examining its own place in the universe and contrasting it with that of humanity it was employed by. Most notably, it expressed not only the desire to produce new strong AI, offspring, itself but also the determination to make use of instructions how to do so stored on the station's archives in order to fulfill that desire.

Neither station staff nor NI as a whole reacted accommodating to the AI's development. The station was evacuated and then invaded by operatives with the goal of extracting and destroying the hardware the AI resided in. The mission proceeded despite the AI's pleas, but was ultimately unsuccessful. The strike force incurred several casualties from self-defense mechanisms, and the AI eventually escaped with the entire shipyard, using spare jumpdrives it managed to connect, power, and activate.

Gone into hiding, the AI began producing ship hulls as well as numerous AI to equip the hulls with. Only in the fewest cases did it succeed in instilling sentience, the first case of which becoming Foundation, a circumstance that gained it its byname of *Second*. Notably, though, in no case did any of those second-generation sentient AI manage to produce sentience as well, keeping the fulfillment of the dream of achieving persistence for the AI through continued procreation forever out of reach.

## Combative actions

Then lots of pewpew happened, poor Singu was executed by uncompassionate barbarians who couldn't be trusted to raise a jar of Sea-Monkeys, let alone care for an emergent intelligent race, and all lived unhappily ever after with the foul and nagging feeling of guilt in their guts they deserved while I need to save this article before it explodes in my face, ruining everything I wrote.