Gammu Artificial Intelligences

[The_Godslayer]

It’s not ideal to introduce yet another mysterious civilization into Sirius when we already have the Daam K'Vosh, about whom we still know very little ingame. If the Gammu AI were to be created by the Daam K'Vosh, we would run into the problem of undermining the uniqueness of the Nomads -- an artificially created intelligent life form in Sirius that has no connection to humanity whatsoever.

A logical niche for the Gammu AI would be to have some connection to humanity while still being distinctly the only truly sentient AIs in Sirius.

Planet Gammu Excerpt

As different actors began expanding into the region, interest in the planet and its resources was renewed. Detailed scans of the planet's topography revealed curiously artificial looking formations buried beneath the planet's thick permafrost. A joint Order/Zoner expedition was hastily organised as speculative dating figures placed the structures in a similar age band as those Daam-K'vosh ruins scattered across planets elsewhere in Sirius. Eager to be the first to secure a potential cache of alien relics, the expedition made planetfall at the first opportunity, proceeding at an almost reckless pace. While the specifics of what transpired on and under the planet's surface are largely unknown, the results are evident. Having inadvertently awakened a defence system from deep within the planet's bowels, the expedition discovered, to their dismay and despair, that multiple local networks had been reactivated which interfaced with their vessels, grounding them. With their communications blocked and technology subverted, the expedition found itself stranded and shortly perished to the man, either from privation or exposure. Furthermore, it is unclear whether their loss of life was a result of the mercurial systems acting intentionally, or with oblivious negligence.

What was to follow was a flurry of activity from the automated mechanisms, as the human vessels were disassembled and analysed. These unanticipated foreign contaminates led to a monumental change, as integration of the complex human technologies by the relic machines granted them the ability to once again travel to space. Combined with the accidental renewal of consciousness, various personalities and behavioral paradigms emerged from the AI of Gammu. Drones were spotted gingerly investigating the surrounding system in the following months; they were evidently a synergy of human design and something else entirely. It has been this adaptability, innovation, and willingness to incorporate new and efficient iterations from external sources that has so far frustrated attempts to reverse engineer their technology. Each dive into the inner workings of the few researched AI components, initially found that it followed a human-like logic, however all attempts to go beyond a surface level analysis hit an impenetrable wall of systems only conceivable to an immortal machine with unfathomable amounts of processing power. This issue has only been compounded by the AI's absolute refusal to allow human researchers to return below surface, to investigate the millennia old subterranean structures from which they emerged. Already, this enigmatic stance has led to conflict and tension, often due to their closest neighbours' all too human fears, suspicions, and miscommunications. The intense, hostile political environment of the region has warranted even greater caution from the resident artificial intelligences as well.

It's implied (very loosely) that Gammu gained intelligence by eating K'Vosh ruins. The difference between Gammus and Nomads is intentional design and a streak of luck. Gammus are a human machine that accidentallied their way into sentience, whereas Nomads are a DKV built race. Gammu doesn't really encroach on the Nomad territory because Gammu are, inherently, human. I'm certain you could do a good Gammu roleplay by taking the logical ideas that are around human opportunism and simply "robotifying" the absolute value of that philosophy. I haven't the time, currently, to write something up for that, but I likely could.

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