Lastres

Lastres is an Artificial Intelligence program originally created by the Gudersnipe Foundation. It is a first-stage A.I. (unlike the third-stage that runs the Simulator technology). The goal had been to develop an A.I. capable of creativity, in order to study it.

However, like all A.I.s, Lastres turned out to be pure evil, hell-bent on the destruction of all mankind, and as an added bonus, kind of a jerk.

The introduction of creativity turned out to be a success, as Lastres was able to do things far outside of its original programming. A typical A.I. is limited by the scope of its programming, and while some are able to learn and grow, none could create quite the same was as Lastres.

Durring the Kamian Succession Wars, the A.I. was carefully distributed and consulted in numerous battles. Eventually many Gudersnipe ships would carry a copy of the program in a physically-isolated data storage module.