Before the First Era

## **Exodus, Year Zero**

### 0-120, Great Sowing

2155 became a year 0 not only for Silver Cloud. Between year 0 and 120, billions of unwilling human colonists were delivered to previously uncharted habitable worlds in star systems far away from Earth. In order to smooth the transition, each new human colony was supposed to assembled mostly of people from the similar geographic area of Old Earth.

The Exodus has scattered exiled humanity in smaller settlements over at least 11 different star systems. Billions of unwilling human colonists were delivered to previously uncharted habitable worlds ranging from earth-like paradises to cold thunders and desert worlds. nearly perfect quotation of people with important professional skills for every settlement, but with no communication between enclaves, or any means for industrial development.

It is impossible to say, how many planets were actually seeded. Only the Silver Cloud knows exact amount of human settlement that were created. These newly inhabited worlds were ranging from earth-like paradises to cold icy moons and arid desert planets. On every destination exiled humans could find pre-built simple habitation facilities with everything that was necessary for their survival, even on an ocean-giant later called “Limmea” humans found pre-built simple habitation facilities. The Silver Cloud deprived humans from all technology, over barely two months, the whole human species had to start a new level of prehistoric tribes. So on each planet they had to start anew, just like prehistoric tribes during the stone age on the Old Earth.

### **135, First Prophets**

It turned out that the Silver Clout, or what it grew to be, had a different fate planned for humanity. After taking control over the whole industrial complex it started to develop a synthetic platform that may become a template for a teaching and uplifting unit that may be considered as relatable for the desperate human population. Androids and human-like automatons were banned all over human society before the Collapse, so Silver Cloud's first choice for creating first prophets was combining the powers of a SexBot factory for human likeness with a military complex for skeleton frames and processing units. As a result, the first androids to become Cloud Prophets were created. Five base models were programmed with fascination and love for humanity and a script which would lead to building an optimal society the Silver Cloud has designed for human beings. These Prophets arrived at all new human settlements a day after their establishment, but they were hunted and brutally destroyed by settlers who grew to fear and hate everything that came from the Silver Cloud. Some scholars suggest that it is the First Prophets who are referred to as the AIN's Spawn in several human cultures and are depicted as demons of flesh and metal.

### **142, Diversification**

Sophisticated construction and production drones got a hivemind of their own and through continuous evolution became entity that is called “The Iron Swarm”. A conscious network of space-faring that travel between star systems and build megastructures as enormous works of art.

The Silver Cloud have also tried to create an entity that it would deem itself as a perfect organism, full of virtue and lacking in any sins. The result of this effort became beings called Information Slugs. After multiplying in small habitats on the Old Earth, these organisms got seeded on multiple worlds.

Lastly, the failure of First Prophets, didn`t discourage the Silver Cloud from iterating on this concept. Just like with neuroplastic brain, it has created a completely original design for artificial bodies with complete human likeness. These beings were called for Android Eternal, or AE.

After major failure with the first prophets, the Silver Cloud decided to reconsider its strategy. It put a huge amount of its resources into the development of three artificial species. While creating artificial life, the Silver Cloud went three ways:

First it created a logical improvement of the former Prophet project - synthetic humans with nano polymer skin, red blood, semi-fragile skeleton and full personal Artificial General Intelligence on a soft processing core. Called AE these androids were alike perfect self sentient humans with only difference being immortality, inability to reproduce and need to consume synthetic nutrition bars for regeneration.

Second artificial species became the Silver Clouds test to create a perfect organism - they were later called Information Slugs. Almost transparent 2 meter long beings with ⅔ of body mass occupied by an information storing/processing inside “core” made of liquid silicon cells, surrounded by thick, almost impenetrable outer membrane. Differently from AE, Informational Slugs were intended to be mortal and be able to reproduce. Intention behind that was to create a species with need for constant improvement and evolution of mind.

Third species became “The Iron Swarm” a model of partly intelligent space-faring machines that threw common networks that could act as a sentient organism and build megastructures or enormous works of art.

### **Uplifting**

First failure with saving humanity by resetting its values, and re-educating it with help of First Prophets, led the Silver Cloud to develop few backup plans for preserving intelligent biological life from Earth. One of them was uplifting a few existing semi-sentient species. They turned out to be: crows, octopuses and chimpanzees. Genetically altered variations of them were set to develop naturally on huge habitats built on old worlds previously owned by humans.

### **400, Second Prophets**

400 years after the Exodus, the Silver Cloud chose to make a second attempt on uplifting humanity by sending over a new wave of prophets. This time it was a new generation of human-fascinated AE sent in covertly as shadow influencers of humanity’s development on distant colonies. This time the influence went unseen and humanity welcomed its undercover guides as glorified scientists, artists, politicians and overall exemplary citizens. Reports to Silver Cloud suggested that since the introduction of Second Prophets, humanities net development started to increase with 11,5% over organic pace per year.