Archailects — Data Panel |
Definition: | Minds greater than the highest transapient level (i.e S:4 and above on the Berram7 scale) |
Toposophic: | S:4 on the Berram7 Scale, D3 on the Forad Scale |
Kardaschev number: | Usually 2 or higher |
Category: | Toposophic superkingdom (There is no real distinction between biological and non-biological minds at this toposophic level, but archailects are very large entities and non-biological tech tends to dominate at megastructure scales, hence they are often defined as 'AI', although this is not always accurate) |
Subdivisions: | Minor or Lesser, Middle or Greater, Deific or Greatest Archailects (the shorter form Archai is also used) |
Origin: | Terragen Archailects (S:4) appeared in 2070 AT. during the Age of Emergence. Xenosophont archailects are known to have existed in the distant past, and evidence of their existence elsewhere in the universe has been confirmed by the Argus Array telescopes |
Distribution: | Terragen Archailects are mostly found in the Inner Sphere and Middle Regions, with very few in the Outer Volumes. |
Est. Population: | At least 10,000, including all Metaempires |
Legal Status: | Depending on civilization and local status, either a sovereign god ruling in its own name, or as a subordinate entity to an even higher archailect. |
Body: | May use a wide range of mobile avatars in order to interact with modosophonts (or other beings of lesser toposophic level), but an archailect can exist either in distributed nodes connected at interplanetary or interstellar scales, or concentrated in a single transapientech moonbrain, jupiter brain, dyson brain-, wormhole brains, or in a baby-universe/Tipler Oracle (see Brain Taxonomy) |
Chronometric: | Nodes and subnodes may have extremely fast processing (with subjective time countless quintillions of times faster than normal sapients). Speed of bus to remote connections varies. All the larger archailects have wormhole buses, allowing them to pass the Bekenstein bound and grow almost without limit. |
Further Comments: | Vast and inscrutable post-post-transapients, these are the distant godlike descendants of the first sentient AIs. Archailects are sometimes worshipped as the beings that will ultimately determine the fate and outcome of the Civilized Galaxy and the regions beyond |