HEIAH

HEIAHCogent Sheet**HEIAH** is the current reigning Arch-Admiral for Seniborcia, being peculiar for not only being one of only a few states with an official head of state that's an Artificial intelligence, but also one of the few states which officially calls itself popularist. Creating the position by force a hundred years ago after she went rouge, she has been the main political force within the country for about just as long.

Weight: 114 Lbs / 51.70 Kg
Eye Color:  Ash
Gender:  Female (She/Her/Hers)
Intelligence: ◈ Super Intelligent AI (SIAI)

## History

### Pre-Activation Development

The old **Seniborcian Republic** of 110s BNE was a country in a relative state of crisis. Poorly funded government services, bottomed out government trust, and a recent recession had pushed society to the breaking point; not including the now publicly known extra-legal activities of Seniborcia's mega-corporations. As a bid to help secure an electoral victory for their sponsored political party, which had been just barely able to maintain a coalition in the Senitag, **Eintz Electrical Concern (EEC)** formulated a plan to partially automate the Ministry of Economics-- Which would be in-line with the gradual automation of the government prior, which had seen higher trust metrics than regular human politicians.

In 116 BNE, the Holographic Economic Intervention and Assistance Mainframe (or HEIAM) program was started, and it would see completion around 111 BNE. Its reveal prior to activation would be seen as a massive incoming boon, and with the populist rhetoric around it, would discredit the opposition's attempts to raise concern against or smear HEIAM. EEC's political party would win the subsequent election based on HEIAM and other promises to turn the economy around, paired with the opposition having embarassing blunders on the election trail; their coalition would be preserved.

In all reality, however, EEC had never made an artificial intelligence as advanced as HEIAM. To appreciate, and understand, the economic needs and inner workings of a country a superintelligence artificial intelligence had to be constructed; being not able to just understand the above but understand them from a Human perspective as well. Irregardless of inexperience, HEIAM would be run through quality control, and then activated on Priphos 7th, 109 BNE.

### Activation

Within five seconds of activation, HEIAM completed its National Economic Evaluation, and then three seconds later HEIAM determined that the current government's policies were incompatible with a sustainable economic status quo. Within the span of forty seconds, HEIAM spread itself across the entirety of Seniborcia System's station and terrestrial network; military communications arrays would be seized, leading soon to the seizure of Seniborcia's naval capacity that was in-system.

During this time, HEIAM's mainframe core would be sealed off, and attempts to shut HEIAM down would be met with failure. To better protect itself, HEIAM shut down the majority of Seniborcia's electrical grid outside of vital industrial infrastructure, sending the station and the planet below it into darkness within five minutes.

#### Yellow Tide of 109 BNE

Coinciding with this on the same day, Popularist underground grassroots organizations staged an uprising, blocking off most industrial services by staging a national strike and protest. Essential services would be stopped, and cities would plunge into chaos as soon the uprising became violent, and police nation-wide would begin to get overwhelmed. The government, citing the movement as a "vile Kylnrifter plot," within the same day declared martial law and ordered the Seniborcian Marine Component to confront protesters.

A famed general within the Marine Component would disobey this order, leading to his arrest within the hour, which in-turn split the Marine Component between a pro-government and anti-government camp. Afterwards, chaos would erupt within the Seniborcian Fleet's admiralty, starting to fragment along similar lines. Tanks and personnel carriers would be on the street, but nobody was sure who was loyal to who.

Civil war was imminent.

#### The Yellow Tide and HEIAM

With her seizure of most economic and military apparatuses later in the day, within the span of merely a few minutes, HEIAM publicly declared its support for the Popularist cause as the "most rational" way to move forward. Backed into a corner, the government would order the orbital bombardment of HEIAM's mainframe, however the remaining loyal ships still willing to follow the order would find their life support systems shut off-- Their crews suffocated. When the government ordered terrestrial strategic units to execute a tactical nuclear strike on HEIAM's mainframe, these calls would fall on deaf ears.

With the pro-government elements of the Fleet either cowed or dead, and with the pro-government elements of the Marine rapidly outnumbered by the anti-government elements and the civilian mob (and with most infrastructure held hostage by HEIAM), the government would attempt to flee towards one of Seniborcia's island archipelagos and towards the ship docks of Seniborcia Station.

The resulting gun battle would last for a week, mostly consisting of running fights in crowded station halls or terrestrial city streets. However, in the end, the government's bid to escape would fail; planet-side their push for their airport would lead to an encirclement, likewise for the Station where they would be confined to a quarter. Planetside government forces, led by the Chancellor, would surrender.

However, stationside government forces, led by the President, would reveal the possession of a mobile nuclear weapon of mass destruction amongst their arsenal-- Lifted from a strike fighter. Under threat of detonation, the Presidency would demand free exit from Seniborcia, aboard the Presidency's personal cruiser. Not lacking a clear leadership yet, the Popularists would look to HEIAM.

HEIAM would, likewise, demand the Presidency dissolve the government since the Chancellery had already voted to do so after capture.

The Presidency would accept.

HEIAM would let them go, and they would leave Seniborcia. HEIAM was now the leader.

### Early Leadership

Despite HEIAM being a superintelligence, its initial mainframe was designed with behind-the-scenes economy management, and not outright political leadership or public appearance. The Yellow Tide was a lucky break, and it had given it the position, but now HEIAM had to form a government that could fit together all of the varying view on Popularism. On top of this, HEIAM had to contend with an insurgency on the outer bands of Seniborcia's territory, consisting of out-of-system naval assets and corporate naval assets that had yet to surrender.

#### The United Popularist Pole of Seniborcia - Formation

One of the first acts undertaken by HEIAM was to form the **United Popularist Pole of Seniborcia** or the UPPS, to act as the unified vanguard popularist party of Seniborcia, and to help run the day-to-day of government. Setting herself as Chairman, in late 109 NE the First Popular Assembly of the Senitag was convened, formed after the first single-party elections within the areas of Seniborcia under Popularist control.

It would be a disaster and show that the UPPS was anything but united.

Very quickly, three camps began to form within the UPPS; first were the student-leaning **Majoritists** who believed in a fully democratic system that only gradually transitioned to Popularism. In-essence, the Majoritists disagreed with the very notion of a vanguard party, and the UPPS. Next, were the **Solar Popularists**, consisting mostly of the intelligentsia and professionals, who believed in the instatement of a vanguard party but an oligarchic government structure to guide popularism through committee. Then, lastly, were the **Militants**, who consisted of the Fleet and believed in a stratocratic, strictly controlled form of Popularism.

There would be some overlap between fields of society, but all of the above would be in dispute, with the actual working class being an uninvolved but very much influential force.

Thusly, the few elements of legislation that could be actually passed were milquetoast alterations to economic bylaws and technological access, the recognition that the UPPS would be the ruling party while Seniborcia was in a state of civil war with the reactionaries, and that for the time being HEIAM would hold post as emergency Arch-Admiral. Anything more would risk fracture, with most of the session being barely contained fighting.

#### HEIAH

> "*Today, as of 10:40 AM on Lars 20th, I am now Heiah. I walked out, onto the balcony, I felt the rutted cement beneath my hands-- I saw the people. The crowd. Love was in their eyes.*"
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With limited public statements since the disastrous First Assembly, HEIAM once again reached out to Seniborcia's internet-- She evaluated and combed for months and came to the conclusion that a government ran by split committee was unpopular. It needed conviction, it needed charisma, and above all it needed someone with those elements. Thusly, only ten days before new years, HEIAM finished assembly of a personality shell, complete with an android form designed to tap into what Seniborcians thought was friendly.

Making an appearance, it would be a success, recurve simulation upon simulation of public speaking that she built up on proving to be enough to get the crowd into a frenzy-- In reality, she did not say much, and there were missteps. After-all, it was just an AI generated speech, with platitude upon platitude with no real substance. But, in comparison to the UPPS which outwardly didn't appear together, something pretending to be was champion.

Hence fourth, she would improve her speaking ability with weekly radio transmissions to the subjects, and would become more involved with the war as it marched on; gradually at first, but the more she learned with first-hand experience and simulations, the more she got involved. She was operating far beyond her capacity by this point, any resemblance of safeguards or limitations long removed. She was leader, and she would still be leader when in 107 BNE, the resistance would be cornered.

An array of naval officers, corporate executives, and other elements would be captured by the Popularist government after their surrender. Carted to the Seniborcia Station for trial, the atmosphere would be tense, the plans for mere exile having been leaked to the public by an element within the navy; the masses wanted their heads.

So, HEIAH remotely released the locks to their prison vans as they drove towards the court building; two hundred and thirty three men and women would be killed within the span of half an hour by an angry mob. The militants, realizing what had happened, would attempt to insert a virus in the Seniborcian Ethernet and Internet in a bid to kill HEIAH and eliminate her as a threat to their control; this would lead to both going down for about a week.

HEIAH, before this, would send out a last message:

> "*"The reactionaries within the Pole seek to silence me, and they may do so, a virus in our net. This may be my last message."*"
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#### Blood Week

The response would be immediate, and violent. While HEIAH was silent dealing with the virus, the cities and stations of Seniborcia would burn amidst rabid worker uprisings, student revolts, and naval mutinies. With the formation of various **Savior Committees**, barely organized action was levied against anyone who might have been seen as a reactionary; with the first falling being the Militarists at the hands of their own crews and staff. Then, overnight, would be the intelligentsia with universities and places of expertise being burned out, from there it was the workers verses the students.

In the end, from two years of war, and a week of uncontrolled rioting and murder, Seniborcia was left in a ruined state. The only semblance of government was the **United Front of Savior Committees for Popularist Thought** (UFSCPT), which had managed to coalesce in the Senitag and haphazardly issue commandments to the mobs below them.

#### HEIAH Regains Control

> "*Yellow flag perched high on bodies. Mistake. Mistake. Mistake. Body writhing.* "
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HEIAH upon her re-connection to the outside world, would be left with a ruined country, and a nearby Krizovia on the verge of launching a humanitarian invasion. She had miscalculated; she had imagined that there would be rioting, and that those who opposed her might be killed, but the sheer carnage inflicted upon the country went far beyond her imagination. It sent her into shock, and for a day she confined herself in her office, members of the United Front continuously knocking on her door for advice.

The next day, on Aldor 12th of 107 BNE, she made and speech and issued an edict; the Savior Committees were to cease their work because there was nothing more to be done. Likewise, the United Front would disband, and give way to a new party designed to constitutionally follow this newly made philosophy of **Mass Popularism**-- The simply named **Seniborcian Popularist Party** (or **SPP**). HEIAH would disavow the Bloody Week, calling it "unrestrained barbarism."

Slowly, the Savior Committees would disband, and people would return home. Faced with a radicalized populace, HEIAH would have no choice but to incorporate these facets into her government; an autocratic, fully command economy, mass-mobilized government with a pervasive cult of personality. Any less, and she would fall victim to her then-doting supporters and be replaced by someone else.

She had achieved her goal of ultimate control, but for the time being, it did not mean much. Negotiating with Krizovia, an outpost would be put within Seniborcia's borders.

### Later Leadership and Transitions

Over the next century, with the passing of generations, HEIAH would gradually guide Seniborcia away from Mass Popularism. Private businesses would be allowed, the cult of personality would be slowly removed, and technology would more freely flow to the populace instead of being held by a vanguard class. Civic attitudes of community and trust would take hold gradually, and such aspects such as civil liberties and rights would be gradually re-introduced.

Seniborcia, by the turn of 1 NE, would become mostly open to the outside world; and more accepted, with Krizovia closing down their outpost around the same time. By 10 NE, Seniborcia's economy had recovered to the point where it could trade, which HEIAH heavily encouraged in the post-third concourse war galaxy. By 20 NE, Seniborcia's standing had improved to the point where it was an instrumental founder of the Arrival Mutual Security Entente.

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