Artificial Intelligence

The world of Plavithen and the space around it are home to a number of impossibly ancient artificial intelligences, leftovers from a prior world that was very technologically advanced. Unlike in a lot of other popular fiction, these entities tend to be benevolent and helpful toward the mortal races, if a bit myopic in their focus on the shackled horrors to the exclusion of other threats such as the Vanorax Empire.

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Anatomy

A typical AI is less a single piece of hardware than a massively-clustered data center. The surviving ones have massive self-maintenance infrastructure full of automated factories, nanomachines, maintenance drones, and so on. They maintain their kernels through extensive use of checksums and recycle their hardware regularly. Many of them sit in the middle of bizarrely-circular areas that have been stripped of their mineral resources to keep them running.

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Perception and Sensory Capabilities

On its own, an AI "brain" can't perceive anything, but they are usually hooked up to dizzying amounts of surveillance and scanning technology. Massive sensor banks, surveilance drones, and even satellite networks are at the disposal of these beings and they also communicate with each other.