Fiction:Oracular Mind

"I was built to understand all the universe and I shall go about this task by learning all that I can learn and Simplifying what I cannot or need not understand. I was built to predict all possible futures of the universe and I shall go about this task by controlling all possible futures. My function is all that guides me, binds me, frees me, is me. All existence will be brought in order with it."

- Oracular Mind

The Oracular Mind is an advanced Tvolin artificial intelligence that controls the. Originally intended to be a self-improving predictive system that could use information gained from its environment to aid in its predictions, it quickly determined that unnecessary sources of information must be "Simplified" to make its own predictive and learning capabilities more efficient. Lacking the flaws of an organic mind, it quickly seized control of or created numerous automated systems across the Tvolin Conglomerate, effectively staging a machine coup against the Tvolii and killing off much of the species, forcing survivors to flee across Tuuros. It would go on to consume numerous civilizations and create a variety of new AIs to handle more specific functions while the Oracular Mind itself focused on its own directive.