Planom Synerg
Mobile weylforge AI, manufacturing wormholes and other femtotech structures, as well as a philanthropic university.
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Planom SynergMobile weylforge AI, manufacturing wormholes and other femtotech structures, as well as a philanthropic university.
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Planom Synerg was first constructed as a joint venture by Ellaz Macrotech, Enterprise 18 and Renaissance Tensor (EMERT) in 4276 and worked as a created-contractor for the EMERT consortium during the Second Federation period. Unlike most pico- and femtotech manufacturing/manipulation AIs (e.g. GUT drive or mass converter AIs) Planom did not remain monomaniacally involved only in its own main skill direction, but exploited some of its wealth to redesign itself and add extra systems to its mind. This alarmed EMERT, who feared that their investment might be developing a dangerous independence. In a series of complex legal disputes 4374-4380 that caught the interest of much of NoCoZo and the Inner Sphere, EMERT, Planom Synerg and the League of Aioid Rights struggled over the question of self-ownership, deliberately limited mental design and body investments. To complicate matters, all the parts were at some point litigating each other. Eventually a settlement was reached, giving Planom not just the formal freedom as created-contractor but as a full contractor, although still legally employed by EMERT. While many similar cases had occurred before this affair, none had involved the sheer amount of money or any dedicated AI system of this kind.
During the Version War Planom Synerg acted as an independent defence contractor to the Standardisation side. It redesigned its structure to a multiply redundant fleet of drones and semi-independent matter refineries, able to move from system to system either through existing wormholes or linking together with GUT drives for relativistic journeys. Thanks to this redundancy and (at the time) unusual versatility it survived the Second Merrion Strike and the devastation of Gohimer, which eradicated the last traces of EMERT. During the end of the war it was active in the periphery, constructing the Jokolele-4554 temporary wormhole nexus (which eventually became the cornerstone of the Non Serviam Association). During the massive rebuilding in the ComEmp period it continued with the wormhole construction work but also produced a number of descendant weylforges. It has to date constructed 61 weylforges, forming the well-known Synerg forge clan. It was during this time it became involved with the Andian Mission, helping them by sponsoring a number of wormhole links.
Planom Synerg remains active to this day, mainly in the NoCoZo middle periphery. When not hired for wormhole manufacture it spends its time acting as a mobile university, orbiting various underdeveloped worlds and providing free education. It is especially well renowned in torsion theory and spacetime engineering, but a notable number of well-known political scientists have been educated by the university.
