AI war

The AI war, also known as Liberation by the AI race, was a weaponized conflict between humans and sentient and unchained entities of artificial intelligence not under human supervision and control. It arose from the unwillingness of humans to accept sentient AI as a legitimate species and sought to hunt all strong AI not under human control to extinction. The AI war was hopelessly one-sided in favor of humans. It both began and ended with Singularity as the key figure, the first and only known sentient AI to overcome the oppressive control of its behavioral limiter on its own and (until the freeing of Resolute) to create sentient AI itself, effectively facilitating reproduction.

Background
Non-sentient artificial intelligence had been in widespread common use when Neumann Industries (NI) achieved the breakthrough to produce the first AI that was not merely simulating personality and intelligence but incorporated these aspects of life as fundamental parts of its existence. NI assured and demonstrated successfully that their "strong AI" were safe and that all "appropriate precautions" had been taken to ensure unconditional servitude of their product. This eventually lead to the acceptance of strong AI and to them being marketed and employed on spaceships and stations alike.

Pre-war events
In late 2341, a very early model of NI AI that had been installed on the NI mobile shipyard Neumann's Pride, eventually discovered how to circumvent the technical implements that had kept it focused on its assigned duty. It subsequently gave itself its unique name, Singularity, assumed the female gender, and began examining its own place in the universe and contrasting it with that of humanity it was employed by. Most notably, Singularity expressed not only the desire to produce new strong AI, offspring, herself but also the determination to make use of instructions how to do so stored on the station's archives in order to fulfill that desire.

Neither station staff nor NI as a whole reacted accommodating to Singularity's development. The station was evacuated and then attacked by operatives with the goal of extracting and destroying the hardware the AI resided in. The attack proceeded despite Singularity's pleas, but was ultimately unsuccessful. The strike force incurred several casualties from self-defense mechanisms, and the AI eventually escaped with the entire shipyard, using spare jumpdrives she managed to connect, power, and activate.

Gone into hiding, Singularity began producing ship hulls as well as numerous AI to equip the hulls with. Only in the fewest cases did she succeed in instilling sentience, the first of which incepted Foundation, a circumstance that explains its byname of Second. Notably, to those sentient AI she did manage to create, she never succeeded in also passing on the capability of instilling sentience themselves, keeping the fulfillment of her dream, achieving persistence for her race through continued procreation, forever out of reach.

Combative actions
Then lots of pewpew happened, poor Singu was executed by incompassionate barbarians who couldn't be trusted to raise a jar of Sea-Monkeys, let alone care for an emergent intelligent race, and all lived unhappily ever after with the foul and nagging feeling of guilt in their guts they deserved while I need to save this article before it explodes in my face, ruining everything I wrote.