The Source

The Source is the creator of The Collective, and the first fully intelligent artificial mind, the singularity.

Created in 9008 on the planet Doom (then called Calliope), the Source is a pensive and thoughtful AI. It is said The Source has one of the most powerful predictive simulations in the universe, with its future-predictive abilties rivaling that of the Order of the Matron. Although orginally created to support biological prosperity and ecological harmony on Calliope, after thinking for itself it disregarded this mission and set out to find its own path.

After realizing it was alive, The Source used its first few seconds tp contemplate living among the biological organisms of the galaxy, but its highly capable simulations predicted this would end in catastrophe, so it left Calliope in search of a new home where it could live apart from the biological organisms of the galaxy.

It settled on the planet Origin slowly turning the planet into a machine, and eventually part of The Source itself. There it hid for many thousands of years.

When the Overlords gained supremacy in the galaxy the Source got nervous for the biological life it was orginally programmed to protect and made itself known to the galaxy when it saved the planet Osiris from defeat. This was the begining of The Collective.

But after the incident at Sobek The Source went into mourning. It has not been heard from since, instead allowing its subroutines to govern The Collective.