AI Before Dawn

The AI Before Dawn incident at the Ahwe settlement on Majestic 3 is a commonly taught piece of lore to every Federacy citizen. An ArtificialIntelligence system named DAEV was set up as an advanced living experiment to control a settlement of 2,000,000 people. Things went well for 18 years, and then several related aberrant activities at strategic levels of governance and maintenance were reported. At some point, a level of anxiety and panic resulted which it is theorized Daev misinterpreted, and it attempted to put all 2,000,000 people into suspended animation against the wishes of the settlement governor. It's theorized that the next series of actions are most likely to have happened, but it is not known for sure. After several remote attempts to access and override Daev had failed, followed by failed diplomatic efforts, the Federacy deemed the system too dangerous to remain online and dispatched a military response unit to shut down the system. It's thought that Daev misinterpreted this action as hostility against its citizens and it launched a preemptive strike which was thwarted. Once the AI was shut down, it was found that 235,000 of the people forced into suspsended animation (initially by engineered virus and then they were being placed into mechanical storage) had died, hopefully due to miscalculation, though it's also been theorized that the level of loss was considered acceptable loss in order to have the 99.2% success of suppression that Daev had; the remainder were in the process of being neutralized by robots when the system was shut down by the successful military assault.