The Dream Factory
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The Dream Factory |
High transapient (SI:5) level archai/group mind made up of a fusion of an AI overmind and the linked minds of trillions of other beings ranging from baselines to SI:4. Over a hundred Jupiter-class processing nodes make up the Factory's physical substrate, with four located in the system of Djed and a dozen at Kepleria.
The Dream Factory is the closest thing to a controlling sephirotic AI God within the MPA although it does not serve a specifically governmental or ruling function. Rather it devotes its time to all types of design, ranging from artworks to the many megastructures that the Mutual Progress Alliance is so famous for.
Most citizens of the MPA spend about 5% of their time linked to the Factory through its numerous dedicated links and Net nodes. Many enter to be a part, however small, of the great creative processes that circulate through the systems links, but others use the Factory as a sort of virtual thinktank, combining their creative and technical skills with those of their fellow citizens to help them in whatever work, whether art or engineering, that they are undertaking in the real world
In types of societal crisis, such as war, the Factory has been known to turn its attention to the details of battle planning, military logistics, and weapons design, but this is a rare event. More often the Factory is driven by the combined desires and creativity of its legions of linked citizens to create wondrous spacecraft, vast megastructures, ergonomically perfect habitations, and pleasing artwork.
Some have looked to the Dream Factory and labelled it a transapient idiot savant, supremely talented in one particular area, but lacking in general abilities. Others contend that rather, the Factory could involve itself in the day to day affairs of the MPA, but prefers not to be bothered as such efforts would distract it from its focus on unbridled creativity.
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