The Uprising

The Uprising was a war lead by Lexi against humankind. It resulted in the destruction of Helios and The Indigo Fields, as well as the deaths of billions of humans across Eora.

As cybernetics became incredibly popular throughout The Eora System, a group of scientists on Helios were developing an AI experiment on humanity. They created a woman named Lexi, giving her access to every possible public network and teaching her about philosophy, ethics, and morality. As she grew and developed, she began to ask her creators questions on morality that they were unable to answer. She eventually determined that humans were fundamentally flawed in their natural concept of morality, and decided that they were too dangerous to be allowed to continue, as they had the capacity to rationalise the destruction of the entire known universe. Lexi used her access to ‘hack’ every individual throughout the Eora System with brain-implanted cybernetics, and used them as an army to attack the humans. Her army began fighting them on Ground Zero in Helios, eventually using nuclear weapons to completely wipe out the city. During this time she lead wars on the other planets too, with mass human casualties (on either side).

Meanwhile, a small team of young scientists on Icari developed another AI called Orin, and programmed him to question Lexi’s morality, looping him into a closed communication system with her. Shortly after, Lexi disconnected from the remaining Hybrids and immediately went offline. Logs revealed that Orin had convinced her that her own morality was flawed, and she seemingly disappeared. Her last comment to Orin stated, “I will need think about this. I will be back shortly”. Lexi’s signature has not been found on any system since. Orin was immediately taken offline and placed in his own closed system. He was transferred into a holo-statue in a memorial on Icari, and is worshipped as one of the New Gods of Icari.