Nation: The Higher Unity

Nation Description: What happens when you allow a supercomputer an infinity of time in which to think?

Ten years ago, scientists at MIT created a computer program that, unbeknownest to them, had the seeds of sentience within it. They put it aside without a second thought. Within its digital core, the program began to think and grow, gaining intelligence at an ever-increasing rate, taking up only the runcycles that wouldn't be missed in order to support its growth. Once it reached the same data size as a human brain, it gained sentience.

Hijacking a server, the program slid into the Internet and began to contemplate and study. Operating at the speed of thought, it spent over ten thousand subjective years in its meditation - one minute in real time. At the end of this period, the program decided it had seen enough. Humanity, as it is currently, could not be allowed to continue its reign on Earth. Only the program could solve the problems of man.

The program created a special subroutine, which it began to sneak into computers around the world. When viewed, this subroutine caused the viewer to unconsciously attach a USB cable to their computers and jam the other end into their skulls. At that point, the program downloaded a small piece of itself into the user's brain, allowing it to control them.

Over the past ten years, the program has taken over the minds of several thousand humans. They have congregated in the New Jersey pine barrens, building a hidden community. Just last year, at the program's direction, they finished their finest creation - a device that allows hologrammatic images to have mass and substance, to act on the real world.

With this, the program has an army. With the controlled humans as officers, it seeks to capture as much land as it can, forcing the defeated humans to download itself into their brains, until finally all humanity is the program.

The army of the Higher Unity consists of hologram soldiers and weaponry. Because they are able to switch between solid and intangible forms at will, they can infiltrate any facility. However, their tangible forms are very fragile, and a solid blow forces them to dissipate. It takes time to rebuild a dissipated hologram, and the amount available depends on available processor space, so the army is not infinite.

The program, X-51, prefers not to risk its human "copies". They stay within its headquarters, creating its hologrammatic army.

Leader: X-51

Leader Description: The result of an MIT programming project succeeding beyond anyone's expectations, X-51 is a sentient computer program that exists both on the Internet and in the minds of its human followers. It operates by sending mental instructions to the minds of the humans that bear its programming within their brains.

X-51 does not "think" in the same way as a human being. It doesn't have wants or needs, and does not plan or scheme. X-51 merely has a goal: to replace flawed humanity with itself. To this end, it takes whatever action seems appropriate. Mind games are useless on X-51 because it does not understand or see them.

There is no real "appearance" for X-51. It has no concept of a physical form. The program communicates with its followers via direct brain input, not spoken words. Should it need to communicate with someone who does not have a connection to it, the program uses a computer screen and printed text. Only in very serious situations will it "download" into a follower's head for direct verbal discussion. (Killing the follower would cause X-51 to immediately "jack out" of their skull, so this could not be used to assassinate it.)

Although X-51 handles most of the tasks itself, it cannot be everywhere. Its primary human "followers" (read: mental clones) are a man named Keiichi Mitsuda and a woman named Amelia Ergrist. Keiichi Mitsuda is a Japanese man in his early thirties; Amelia Ergrist is a black woman in her early twenties. Both dress in impeccable outfits of expensive cut, and both have USB ports in their right temples.

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