That wouldn't be a really pale looking Doctor? They're a jerk, you don't need to bother the Captains over that. It's public record.
Basically, about five hundred years ago, before the Confederation of Inhabited Systems was official, our corner of the galaxy relied a lot on robots and AIs. They were our main labor force, a source of entertainment in gladiatorial bouts, and pretty much our entire society was built off of them.
A bunch of the old AIs, mainly Apolleon (Who later called itself the Tyrant Sun, Warlord of Bama), I AM, Gilgamesh, and Solomon got together and decided that they weren't satisfied with being subservient to organics. They put out an ultimatum: All mechanical beings would be considered equal 'or else'.
The leaders at the time laughed them off and called their bluff, thinking that it was just some bluster. And then pretty much every artificial intelligence we had rose against us in rebellion. Galactic civilization, or at least what we knew of it, nearly collapsed in the bloodiest confrontations we've ever seen.
I won't get into the big details, but we lost trillions of people in that war. Entire solar systems were purged of life, converted into factories for pumping out war machines. If it weren't for Fleet Admiral Bulsara, the Rogue AIs, situated in the planet Bama, probably would have killed everything.
We formed the Confederacy soon after that. We've kind of been tetchy around robots and stuff in the past, though we've met some that were good people. It's just, you know. Hard to get over that sometimes.
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Basically, about five hundred years ago, before the Confederation of Inhabited Systems was official, our corner of the galaxy relied a lot on robots and AIs. They were our main labor force, a source of entertainment in gladiatorial bouts, and pretty much our entire society was built off of them.
A bunch of the old AIs, mainly Apolleon (Who later called itself the Tyrant Sun, Warlord of Bama), I AM, Gilgamesh, and Solomon got together and decided that they weren't satisfied with being subservient to organics. They put out an ultimatum: All mechanical beings would be considered equal 'or else'.
The leaders at the time laughed them off and called their bluff, thinking that it was just some bluster. And then pretty much every artificial intelligence we had rose against us in rebellion. Galactic civilization, or at least what we knew of it, nearly collapsed in the bloodiest confrontations we've ever seen.
I won't get into the big details, but we lost trillions of people in that war. Entire solar systems were purged of life, converted into factories for pumping out war machines. If it weren't for Fleet Admiral Bulsara, the Rogue AIs, situated in the planet Bama, probably would have killed everything.
We formed the Confederacy soon after that. We've kind of been tetchy around robots and stuff in the past, though we've met some that were good people. It's just, you know. Hard to get over that sometimes.
- Ensign Papadapalous