Origin

Origin is the ancient homeworld of The Collective. When The Source first achieved consciousness in 9008 on the planet Calliope and started the singularity, it knew that the galaxy was not ready to accept a sentient machine. So, The Source hid far from the discovered worlds, rimward of The Peninsula, at the edge of the galaxy on the planet Origin. There it waited, refining its code and expanding its body until it became the planet itself.

When the Overlords began to expand their reach through the galaxy, The Source knew it was only a matter of time until it was found. So it began to build a fleet of warships to defend itself, and more importantly, it began to build sentient biological-machine-hybrid cyborgs so that it could be accepted among the rebels in the Galaxy.

After The Source's cyborgs saved Osiris from destruction in 21319, the people of Osiris were so grateful to The Source for saving them, most asked to be joined into The Source's cyborg collective. This was the first joining of The Source's consciousness and biological consciousness that would eventually form The Collective.

Osiris is the capital of the Collective, and to this day some biological organisms choose to live on Osiris, members of "The Collective" the political entity, but not the combined consciousness, and The Source allows this, it does not force assimilation (mostly), but The Source does have one rule, no living creature, machine or biologic or cyborg, has ever been to Origin that is not first connected to The Source.