Story

This is a story that happened about eleven thousand years before I was made. It concerns the ancestors of the people who founded Incident Colony. It was once known across the galaxy simply as 'The Incident'. It is a story that concerns the entire galaxy as it Spurred the creation of the 8th cybernetic article of the interstellar manufacturing treaty.

It concerns Four androids.

There was a world, Hesotoru. This world was purchased for colonization by a group of Americans. They were still far from their new home when they learned that it had already been illegally colonized by a british sect, and had fallen into savagery. They sent ahead of themselves four androids programmed and instructed to suppress technological advancement on the world, to keep them savage. The overt goal was to ensure that there was no fully developed party to negotiate against when the colonists finally arrived.

For three hundred years they crisscrossed the planet. Their tactics were often brutal. They hunted down, and usually killed, scientists engaging in promising research. Sometime they wiped out whole towns.

The savage people there called them wizards.

Just seven months before the arrival of the Americans, one of the androids learned that the Americans were planning genocide. An automated fabrication facility on the third moon had been programmed to produce a virus in sufficient quantity to destroy every surface mammal in a matter of hours. Rather than a relocation, integration, and education program, the world would simply be sterilized.

After convincing his three brothers of the truth about their purpose, they rebelled. They armed the natives, disabled the biological weapons, And prepared what is perhaps the most effective siege resistance in history. In the end, they were able to ransom colonization access to the system in exchange for the safety and integration of the natives.

This incident, a rebellion of four androids, is also cataloged as the 8th Cybernetic War. The aftermath of this level of android control led to the renegotiation of the IMT, guaranteeing that no android could be used to commit genocide.

Over time, the culture of the natives melded into the culture of the Americans. One philosophical movement to spring out of this clash is the Aesthetic Christianity civilization. This is a loose knit collection of systems and colonies that predominantly hold to the the philosophy that the superficial forms of pre-plateau Christianity are suitable foundational supports for a near-ideal society.

They did pretty well, really. When I left there was still a lot of significance attached to the fact that some of their ancestors had tried to kill each other. The ethnic groups had become muddled; everyone had a vague notion that they were descendants of the would-be victims, but no one really knew.

Cario tells us that we (of Incident Colony) are 'British', and he is 'American'.