Gindori

The gindori are AI servants of a long‐dead race that are now free and attempting to adjust to that freedom. A pandemic wiped out their creators, leaving them to roam the ruins of their homeworld and wonder what was to happen next. They were advanced enough to understand that mourning was to occur, but it took them centuries to understand what that actually meant. They have only recently joined the galactic milieu, for their creators had not developed long‐term space travel at the time of their extinction. When asked by the Assembly how they wished to be known, they did not have an answer. A grand conference was held on the topic that lasted the better part of a month before they agreed on their name—a word taken from their creator’s tongue that simply meant “children.”

Civilization and Culture

Naming Traditions

Being a synthetic race with neither childhood phase nor clear parental lines, the gindori name themselves with some word or phrase meaningful to them. These names do not always match organic naming conventions, and they can change many times throughout a gindori’s life as it increases its knowledge base and list of experiences. For convenience, and with the gindori Majority’s consent, UNA assigns individual gindori identification codes so as to be able to keep up with the name alterations. Still, UNA has to assign an entire database maintanence team to the gindori just to stay even a little up‐to‐date.
The record for shortest gindori name is a 2,597,410‐way tie, among all gindori who have chosen a single unique character from the Unicode possibilities. The record for longest gindori name is more contentious, though after filtering out the spam entries (such as one who chose the entire output of the UNA Standard‐language internet and one who put down three hundred eighty-seven million, four hundred twenty thousand, four hundred eighty-nine “9”s), a world record maintainer decided that the honor belonged to gindori 59FH‒9X01L6, whose name is composed of a wholly‐original 1.5‐million word love poem it composed in an attempt to woo an ailuri paramour. Reportedly, the ailuri accepted, and their odd coupling is going stronger than ever today.