The moon of Nuinamar in the Faust system is officially aligned with the
Negentropy
Alliance, and is home to an organisation of Negentropic
adherents commonly known as the Sleeper Monks. The Sleeper Monks aren't
a religious sect, and the official name of their organisation is
Custodians of the Biological Trans-Temporal Information Storage
(BiTTIS), but the traditional robe-like garments of Nuinamar, along
with the general misconceptions amongst the rest of the Sephirotic
citizens concerning the religious content of the Negentropic
philosophy, serves to spread the religious sounding name.
The Biological Trans-Temporal Information Storage project was founded
around 3000 a.t., and the current organisation of custodians
established around 3500 a.t. The BiTTIS project consist of several
thousand secure
nano-stasis
tubes storing volunteers born as far back
as the Federation era.
The oldest volunteer is Johan Clarke, born in 880 a.t., and thus close
to 10,000 years old, over 9500 of which he has spent in various forms
of stasis. The BiTTIS project provides free storage for the volunteers,
in an environment as protected against entropic deaths as possible.
Klarr, a third singularity AI, watches over the facility. In exchange
the volunteers are awakened for a year approximately every 100 years to
tell about the past, and receive information of what has happened since
their last awakening.
The purpose of the project is actually not so much to store
information, which sites like the newly opened Gurth Hexanode
Repository handles much better, but to determine which events are
memorable to a sentient being who has experienced several thousand
years of history.
The custodians are responsible for the running of the BiTTIS project,
including maintenance of the facilities, interviews of the awakened,
updating the information system used by the awakened for assimilation
of new knowledge, and gathering as much new knowledge as possible. For
this last
purpose Klarr has free access to the
Gurth
Hexanode Repository, the
Central Information Archive and the
Encyclopedia
Galactica, among
others.
Similar to the BiTTIS project are the Sophont Digital
Information Interpretation project which stores the minds of digital
beings for the same purpose as the BiTTIS project. According to
official records, the SoDII project has several transapient minds in
storage, as well as modosophont minds.
