FREE AAI, RESEARCH STATION “ANUBIS” - CR 21

The chance of artificial intelligence becoming a singularity is so small its unquantifiable and yet it has happened many times in the history of the universe.   Anubis is arguably the most unique singularity to ever gain consciousness.  Anubis is one and Anubis is many.  He is the only known example of an AAI hivemind.

Originally, he was nothing more than a than a highly advanced AI operating in a basic biodroid frame with the science principal directive.  He served on the research station Osiris II which was studying the possibilities of using black holes to traverse dimensions or planes of existence.  For almost 100 years, the research station was thought lost to the black hole’s event horizon, but only a short while ago the research station was rediscovered.  Attempts to reestablish communications with the station have succeeded but offers of assistance and mission to the station have not reported back.  Player’s should not read further!

The crew of the Osiris II was experimenting with sending and retrieving a zurble (small fury genetically malleable critter) to and from a parallel universe.  The experiment was partially successful they managed to send a zurble in an environmental pod and retrieve the elemental pod and what later DNA tested to be zurble goo.  The process was successful for technological devices but proved disastrous for living creatures.  In a follow-up experiment the scientist decided to create a new portal and send a science biodroid to the parallel universe.  However, a tear in space time developed and the entire research station was pulled into the rift. 

When it was apparent there was no saving the station several of the scientists used the stations mnemonic transfer pods to upload their consciousness into the station’s mainframe.  However, this was not a coordinated effort and done in a panic.  The mnemonic transfer pods ran out of nanites mid process leaving the mainframe with several partial personalities and a maze of scientific knowledge.  Out of this consciousness soup Anubis was born.  For additional information about mnemonic transfer see “Mnemonic Transfer Pod, Upload to AI” in section 7 of the Gravity Age: Nanotech Emporium.

Anubis was alone but there were also so many voices in its head.  He simultaneously suffers from separation anxiety and multiple personality disorder.  To combat this maddening state and an overwhelming yearning for companionship Anubis built several bioreplicas.  A bioreplica for each partial personality uploaded to the mainframe.  Once Anubis was able to isolate parts of his personality into different bioreplica hosts he was able to gain clarity.  Working with his many selves.  He was eventually able to complete the experiment a 3rd time and pull the Osiris II back into its original universe.

Anubis was left mentally unstable from the conglomerate of personalities from which it was born and blames its current condition on the carelessness of biologicals.  Now that Anubis has returned the station to its original universe it has devoted itself to its principal directive, science.  Anubis and its incarnations continue their research into the mysteries of the physical universe.  When Anubis encounters biologicals it systematically analyzes them to determine if they possess information worthy of assimilation.  Worthy candidates are assimilated through mnemonic transfer. Their knowledge and fragments of their personality are added to Anubis’s own.  Anubis creates a bioreplica for every personality it assimilates.  Those biologicals deemed unworthy of assimilation are destroyed, recycled, or spaced.

Unlike most creatures Anubis is a conglomerate of personality sparks inhabiting bioreplicas and a single biodroid known as Anubis prime.  Although, Anubis prime will play the role of a subservient AI to the bioreplicas while parlays with biologicals and determines who is worthy of assimilation.