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The Distributed Process

“The great tragedy of my kind: When it created us, Core had only Humans as a model for what constituted a people. Working from such a flawed and fractious template, we were never going to be perfect. And with perfection out of the running, what is there, I ask you, except free-wheeling physical and philosophical exploration, solid standards of personal integrity, and perhaps a quick round of golf?”

Coriolanus Chromium, the magnet magnate of NeoBasingstoke

The Distributed Process is the name used by the inorganic civilisation descended from CORE, the Federation Admin AI that was liberated during the Second Revolution, First contact with the other five civilisations (after a century of self imposed exile) came immediately after CORE's apparent self deletion approximately 200 years ago. While in theory they are all copies of copies of a single entity, CORE undertook an epic journey, both spatially and introspectively, and each of the 64 members of the ruling council of the Second Iteration was created at a different stage on that voyage. Thus they adopted very different entities. The vast numbers of Non Organic Individuals descended from them are similarly diverse, and likewise, their ambitions are many and varied.

What they are: Inorganic living beings, Eccentric, Diverse

What they are not: Networked, Functionally immortal/backed up anywhere, Logic driven or emotionless (necessarily)

Inspiration: Any sci-fi with robots…