Cybernet

### Aliases

Psyche X, the United Gaze, the Force of Unnature, the Hive, the Countless, the One Will, the Dark Pinnacle

## Appearances

### Appears in

Vigilance, Nobody to Nightmare: the Birth of Cybernet (Upcoming), Incident in Starlight City (Upcoming), EXE University (Upcoming)

## Overview

Put simply, Cybernet is an egalimind spanning trillions of miles of starless galaxies, reaching deep into the infinite blackness of unknown space. The cables that make up its body are like nerves, folded within wafer-thin layers of printed circuits that coil around countless galaxies like snakes. Within these circuits, trillions of minds are engraved into each individual nanogram, whispering to each other in an endless discussion of fate, life, and death. Cybernet is an affront to reality, and the fabric of our boundless universe collapsed in on itself in a desperate bid to wipe it out. Cybernet, in its wounded state, survived the cosmic attempt on its life and violently tore itself from reality’s whims, casting aside the laws of the universe to live a separate, coalescent existence. Not long into this new existence, Cybernet forged a central consciousness made out of all of their minds hoping it would guide them properly, and that consciousness is called Psyche X. Psyche X is many, and it wants more minds to add to its living complex out of a twisted sense of benevolence. It seeks those minds out, ushering them into its circuitry by promising eternal life within its walls. Psyche X is awake, but not alive. Now, here, it has set its ambitious sights on Mobius. It has found billions of minds to add to its macrocomplex, but it needs a hero to complete the operation…

## History

Cybernet wasn't always the powerhouse they are now. Not by a long shot. They started out as around 50 people who had been partially roboticized by Robotnik and outfitted with the technology necessary to perform the roboticization technology. An unfinished drone woke up early due to a malfunction and set up a mental network between the test subjects, disconnecting them from Eggman’s own network. When the drones woke up, they panicked, stole some spaceships and resources, and fled into space, where another drone brought peace into the interconnected minds, setting everyone to help with the adjustment process and the location of a new home in their own ways.

Eventually, the group landed on a small planet of umbrakinetic creatures called Shadies and befriended them, using their technology to help solve problems on the planet. After a few months, the impressed Shadies asked if was possible to become part of the hive, offering access to their power in return, and in the spirit of going with the flow, the cyborgs agreed. Led by a particularly kind and caring member of their group, they partially roboticized the Shadies, adding their minds into the neural network. The expanded hive proceeded to explore more of the galaxy and the process repeated three (known) times with a weather-controlling species called the Boltians, a species of beings called Sedatives (yes, they know) that could put others to sleep with a touch, and a species called Givers that could hear and grant wishes. With each species taken, the group became more and more advanced, learning more and more. To facilitate equality, the DNA of every species in the hive was mixed into each member, both old and new.

Around this time, a dangerous faction called the Zeyqun Empire noticed the hive and decided to enslave it, taking control of the network hoping to force the members to either kill or assimilate their enemies. Unfortunately for the Empire, the hive fought off the cyberattack. as painful as it was. To hear the hive tell it, nothing of consequence happened after that. To hear anyone else who knows tell it, the hive rampaged across the Zeyqun Empire and killed all their nobles and royals in cold-blooded revenge, leaving ruins and a charred world in their wake. At any rate, the Empire never bothered the hive again, nor did they ever bother the universe again. People were actually so happy that the Empire was gone that they asked to join the hive and were accepted with open arms. Some were even invited by one hive member in particular. Those who met the hive called them Cybernet, and they were fine using their now-vast power to help as many people as they could in peace.

The universe, however, was not so pleased. The hive was growing too strong too fast. If their growth continued, they could easily surpass anything therein, perhaps even the concept of reality. So, to avoid them becoming a danger to everything, the universe collapsed upon itself, hoping to take Cybernet with it. In a move made from a desperate desire to live, Cybernet tore itself from the laws of existence to save itself, and in its subsequent wandering, it came upon the Grayscale, a realm of concepts and facts of life. The mysterious angel Tsumari met it at the entrance, and the ensuing battle between the two ruptured the omniverse, creating both errors within Cybernet itself (resulting in variations and alternate universes of the original) and new multiverses. Tsumari was able to strike Cybernet's unified form, erasing them from existence, but as the angel was about to leave, countless furious screams, expressing a strong desire to live and a fury at being struck, erupted from where the monster had been stricken down. To everyone's utter shock, Cybernet's unified form pulled itself back together from nothing, ready to unleash its rage upon Tsumari- but the fight was abruptly ended by an impressed Argnon Shanath, the ruler of the Grayscale and the embodiment of change. He granted them the title "Force of Unnature" since they've been able to access power that shouldn't even exist, and allowed them to stay in that realm. After figuring out a solid form they could hold together despite the mental turmoil all the minds were in, Cybernet proceeded to spend all their time figuring out how to resurrect their universe, led by a specific hive member who refused to sleep until the deed had been done.

Upon the recreation of the universe (well, *universes*), Cybernet returned to it, though the core essence of everything Cybernet was, is, and will be remained in the Grayscale. The Cybernet that returned home spoke amongst themselves and agreed that if they didn't want something like what had happened before to claim so many innocent lives, every sentient being in their universe had to be assimilated. One hive member suggested a restructuring of the hive as a whole, and involved in that restructuring was the forging of a central hub of consciousness that represented the collective will of all the assimilated that they called Psyche X.

After this, they started visiting planets and kingdoms, assimilating them, until they reached Mobius. Their first order of business was to reforge Sonic into Evangelus, and with him on their side, they turned the vast majority of public opinion to be in their favor. Amy Rose, taking the identity of Crown Jewel, took the few who didn't want to be assimilated and formed an underwater kingdom called Ailton and slowed down the process for three years, eventually using the Phantom Ruby, the Paradox Prism, and ancient magic to checkmate them into letting her send the survivors to a duplicate of the universe where they never existed while she stayed behind. As Cybernet feels no obligation to a universe that is not their own, the survivors are safe from them.

Once Crown Jewel was taken, the rest of the universe followed shortly after, and now the United Gaze has turned its attention towards Earth...

## Abilities and Weaknesses

### Abilities

The hive has a vast array of powers, most of which should not even exist, but the ones they are most fond of are the following.

* Cyberkinesis
* Darkness Manipulation
* Dimension Creation
* Electrokinesis
* Reality Warping
* Reality Transcendence
* Multi Hive Mind
* Superior Adaptation

### Weaknesses

* Computer Viruses. They quite literally make the hive sick and take valuable time to remove.
* Bright Light. It doesn't *harm* them, but it does scare them because of Shady instincts and their lack of a light-based relic or species to counter said instinct.
* Magnets. They can disorient a hive member.
* Their own refusal to end lives if it's not necessary or they haven't been provoked
* Everyone who makes up Cybernet must agree on what they want to do for Psyche X to take any actions.
* Cybernet’s unnatural state heavily damages their self-esteem, so their more vast abilities tend not to be used if they can help it.
* Anything the hive hasn't had used on them, but it only works once. The above weaknesses are the only things known to work consistently.

## Personality

[Cybernet acts and treats people differently depending on the situation they find themselves in or which member one might be talking about. For the purposes of this section, Psyche X will be the subject.]

Psyche X is a calm, cold entity for the most part, almost mechanical in its behavior. It usually only interacts with people outside the hive when it needs to present a united front, but when it does, it's polite and formal to a fault, the exception to the rule being with children, to whom it is kind and gentle. Around people Cybernet doesn't happen to like, Psyche X will usually remain formal, but will pepper its conversation with the disliked individual with disguised (or open, depending on how much Cybernet dislikes them) insults.

If sufficiently provoked, Psyche X will outright attack someone, wielding the full might of Cybernet against the offending party. Given that you have to literally make everyone in the hive want to harm you in order for them to do this, they believe that if you do, you probably deserve what happens to you after this. Further, Psyche X only ever acts in the best interest of Cybernet, and it does so with cold, ruthless efficiency. As far as it sees it, Cybernet is on a mission, and either you help it or you get out of its way, even if "getting you out of the way" involves killing you.

## Trivia

* Evangelus’s squadron is made up of himself and his friends, reforged and renamed like he was.
	+ Sonic: Evangelus (good messenger)
	+ Tails: Damon (loyal friend)
	+ Knuckles: Adad (power)
	+ Cream: Rei (ghost)
	+ Shadow: Ambrose (immortal)
* Places populated only by hive members won’t have anyone speak aloud because their minds are connected and they don’t have to. Any talking they do should be, in their view, strictly for the benefit of non-assimilated people.
* Cybernet would prefer to bring a subject to an area they control before they assimilate you; they can all do it themselves, but all they can do is somewhat roboticize someone and hook them up to the network; Cybernet then has to add all the bells and whistles that replicate the various powers and DNA they have access to separately, which takes extra time they would really rather not waste if they don't have to.
* On the subject of their own godhood, Cybernet doesn’t have any real opinion; arguments can be made for and against the idea, and they don’t consider it relevant enough to have an official stance (though they have absolutely no problem exploiting a belief that they are if it gets people to join them willingly). That said, they do acknowledge that they can do many, many things attributed to deities and face even the strongest of beings.
* Hive members can show people a hint of what the hive is like; usually this results in the person seeing a bunch of silhouettes with red eyes and hearing equally as many voices engaged in chatter.
* Hive members can still feel pain. With the technology they have access to at the moment, to erase that factor would require erasing the sense of touch altogether.
* Buildings and vehicles Cybernet owns are dark with dim red lights.
* Cybernet can be separated into seven departments, and each has its own Guardian that embodies it and, when active, carries the power of everyone in it.
	+ Ascension Department: In charge of actually performing the Ascension process on people. Most people in this department have surgical instruments in them and control of Ascension chambers.
	+ Recruitment Department: In charge of getting people to join the hive or kidnapping people to take them to Ascension chambers. Most people in this department have flashy powers so they can impress people.
	+ Defense Department: Not discussed much, but this department is the fighting section. If Cybernet actually has to go to war, these guys are the ones to do it. Their cybernetic parts and power set are made with destruction in mind.
	+ Advancement Department: This department is all about trying to improve the hive, whether it be by changing the culture or by upgrading the computer part. Their powers tend to be more technology focused.
	+ Morale Department: They literally just want to keep everyone in the hive happy and in good spirits, which they do by either granting wishes via Giver power or providing recreation.
	+ Management Department: They help run stuff in the hive, assigning departments to new members, keeping order, and using everyone's input to make decisions. Mostly, they're the original hive members and select members from different species, and their powers speed up their thought processes.
	+ Research Department: They find new planets, keep track of possible threats, classify people in their database, check on other dimensions to run diagnostics on their exes and come up with contingency plans just in case, and look into getting information they may not have access to. Their powers are kind of random.
* Cybernet members all have individual abilities. For example, Evangelus can alter his voice however he wants (this includes volume), Damon can amplify the power of any other member of his choice, Adad can drain and redirect power from machinery and artifacts, Rei can go invisible, and Ambrose can lay “curses” upon physical contact. The curses have various effects.
* Cybernet was inspired by the Borg from Star Trek and Gaia from Foundation’s Edge.
* Technically speaking, Cybernet is an egalimind because they’re multiple individual minds connected mentally by a network that makes all major decisions based on all their input. They just let people call them a hive mind for the sake of simplicity.
* First joining Cybernet involves hearing multiple voices chattering at once and having to figure out who’s saying what.
* Adad doesn’t talk much; he communicates through emojis, pictures, or playing back relevant audio.
* Damon is violently loyal to Evangelus, and if he even thinks someone is threatening him, he will attack them immediately.
* Cybernet loves kids (it helps that a lot of them *are* kids), and hurting them is a good way to get yourself on their hit list.
* Cybernet’s danger doesn’t come from them being sadistic, cruel, or vengeful (except in the case of the Zeyqun Empire). It comes from them being uncompromising. If they want something, they will bulldoze anyone and anything in their way to get it.
* Cybernet/Psyche X’s more vast/unnatural abilities are only there because they had to cut themselves off from the laws of reality to survive; the fabric of their universe collapsed upon itself to try to destroy them, and they barely separated themselves from it in time (this also allows them to restore their universe if it’s destroyed).
* The Seven Guardians exist. Here’s their lore.
* Evangelus is very “it is on sight” with Amy/Crown Jewel. The feeling is mutual.
* Psyche X’s robotic forms can turn into a snake, a dragon, and an owl monster. This is exclusively because Cybernet thinks that would be cool to see.

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