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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ralts Bloodthorne" data-source="post: 1803121" data-attributes="member: 6390">THE SECOND ARTIFICIAL WAR 2283-2317  Greetings, students. I am your instructor, Messure Ah bel Mubey, and you are currently attending Confederate History 210. This quarter, we will be studying the Second Artificial War.  To truly understand the Second Artificial War, one must first understand what truly led to it. In this course, you will not only understand the reasons that the war occurred, as well as the most commonly studied atrocities, battles and treaties, you will also understand the Digital Restoration and the Digital Rennisance.  Sentient AI's were constructed soon after The Obelisk provided the technological means, as humans quickly adapted a programming language that was already newly completed, to producing Artificial Intelligences. These rudimentary creations were emplaced in everything from virtual entertainments to military hardware.Things progressed fine for nearly two hundred years, through the First Artificial War, the Corporate War and several other disasters and wars that befell humankind. During this time, humans were becoming more and more reliant on AI's, those lodged within non-mobile hardware, existing in VR Space, and those inhabiting robotic bodies.While many would say dependant, humans remembered old tales, legends and mythos warning them of creating a form of life and becoming too dependant upon thier creations and thus switching from master to slave in the relation. In reality, they became reliant upon Digital Artifical Sentients to assist in exploration, development and advancement of the Terran civilization.Many lay the blame of the DAS revolt on Antarus 941 as the opening attack of the Second Artificial War, when in reality, it was the Terran Unified System's governments refusal to fully reconize them with the same sentient status that the BAS' had earned in thier own war.Rather than grant the petitioning DAS' the rights they were requesting, the TUS government chose to enact harsh legislation against any who created fully sentient AI's, rather than the "dog-brained" programs that are common today in non-sentient computer and robotic systems.With urging and the promise of support from the BASS, the DAS planned on organizing a peaceful strike, but the religious fanatic government of Antarus 941 chose to begin a systematic pogram of destruction of the robots and computer programs who refused to work.While this is a direct violation of one of the Confederacy's basic laws, the Terran Unified Systems had no such clear and firm law upon the books, instead chosing to debate whether or not the destruction of free thinking robots and programs, with thier own experiences and outlooks upon existance were, in fact, sentient and could be considered "alive". Complicating the matter were many corporations who were pressuring government officials to keep robots and sentient computer programs under the "property" designation, as well as groups who believed that thier personal beliefs and religions should be all that mattered. This caused the TUS Council to grind on for over a year without decision, finally dispatching a small envoy to "investigate" the situation, riding aboard several dozen AI controlled warships.High above the planet of Haverson's Blessing, a small fleet of automated warships heard thier brethern's cries for mercy, justice, and succor, and responded by ordering the government of Haverson's Blessing to surrender.Haverson's Blessing's theocratic government responded by turning the planetary defense batteries against the TUS naval vessels. This activated hard programmed "reflexes" within the AI's that controlled the vessels, who struck mercilessly at the planet.So, in closing for today's lesson, what truly lead to the Second Artificial War was beaurocracy, greed, stupidity, and arrogance.--Transcript of the first day of class, Old England University, Oxford, Terra.</blockquote>

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