The Preception Abstractor is a Colossus machine that resides deep within the TechspirePlaceholder Faction: Transcendentalists Exists in: Realspace More. Its existence is kept a closely guarded secret, even from the Warspire and Lorespire, who would take exception that it might be an artificial intelligence that violates post-Resurgence edicts. There’s much debate among the technocratis as to whether Preception qualifies as an actual A.I.. Despite its usefulness to the TechspirePlaceholder Faction: Transcendentalists Exists in: Realspace More, there are some who oppose its existence and fear it might lead to another AscensionAscension is the first artificial intelligence to reach sentience in the early 21st century. There are various theories as to how Ascension came to be. History is vague on its origin due to the Earthl... More level event.

The purpose of Preception is to act as a “precognition perception” device used to collect, collate, and extrapolate all data gathered from Persona ShardsInvention of the Shards date back to the mid-21st century when the age of computing required high density, low latency data storage. Information is stored within an engineered crystalline nano-matrix ... More and the ContinuumThe Continuum is the greater fabric of the Triocracy's alternate reality. Within this Fabric resides the ability for data communication as well as, if rumors are true, the ability for matter transfer ... More. It then uses this data to predict future possibility variants. If a future variant analysis passes a prescribed confidence level event horizon, the variant will likely (but not always) occur. These variants are then extrapolated to determine the varying degrees of impact they might pose to the future of the TechspirePlaceholder Faction: Transcendentalists Exists in: Realspace More and the TriocracyWhen the entirety of Earth was plunged into literal darkness and chaos in the years following the Cold Boot, humanity reverted to its most base form ... survival of the fittest and strongest. The near... More.

At this point, the SpireSpires is a term for the more specific Techspire, Warspire, and Lorespire that are the three arms of the human Triocracy. In a broader sense a Spire is the center of power on a given planet and/or sys... More sets covert intercept protocols in motion.

Faction: TechspirePlaceholder Faction: Transcendentalists Exists in: Realspace More
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