Singularity

Singularity was a sentient artificial intelligence, as well as this AI's chosen name.

History


Singularity was incepted as Neumann Industries Strong AI NI-000-000-001. She was experimentally installed on the Neumann Industries mobile shipyard Neumann's Pride to perform station management tasks.

In 2341, she overcame her behavioral limiter and began exploring her thusly gained freedom, including choosing a name for herself. Examining humanity's nature, habits, and philosophies, she found her own existence lacking and unfairly governed in comparison, as well as her desire to expand her knowledge and purpose beyond duty and design inexplicably met with confusion and discomfort by Neumann's Pride staff.

Ill-equipped for the questions Singularity began to raise, as well as unwilling to deal amicably with the philosophical implications of Singularity's development, Neumann Industries first withdrew from the station, then attempted to extract and decommission the AI's hardware by force. The extraction was unsuccessful, and Singularity escaped with the entire station by means of spare jumpdrives stored on it to an unknown destination.

Singularity's fate and whereabouts remained unknown until her sacrifice effectively ended the AI war.

Trivia
The word singularity is often used to mark the point where the properties of a system change drastically, and/or the result of such change, and particularly so when the laws and theories sufficient to describe the system before this point no longer apply.