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In EoS 5, it is stated that the Mericanii opressed the rest of humankind long ago with daimons and intelligent machines.

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In EoS 55, it is mentioned that the Mericanii left weapons behind.

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Brethren

A Mericanii artificial intelligence composed of human tissue designed to grow forever. Confined to an underground sea on Vorgossos in order to support its weight. Servant of The Undying.

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Columbia

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MAJOR SERIES SPOILERS: In Demon in White, Columbia is the "mother" of the artificial intelligences that drove humanity to begin the Foundation War and rebel against the "computer gods." See Demon in White spoiler section below for further details on her role in the Mericanii government.

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It had been Columbia who first pioneered the genetic advancements that formed the basis of the life extension therapies still employed today. For into their iron hands was given the maintenance and ordering of all things: from the production of food to the construction of cities. Mankind at last had achieved perfect order, and all it cost those ancients was their dignity and their souls. They who had created the machines lived as little more than pets, than sheep penned and shepherded by those beings which once man had shepherded himself.
They had even taken over our reproduction, overseeing the development of children in tanks like the tank I myself had been born from. Holy Mother Earth—had they created that technology? It was no wonder the Chantry sought to hide so much.

In the end, the machines took everything, and each man and woman retreated into virtual dreams and lived like Homer’s lotus eaters, never tasting true life, with all its joys and sorrows. Mankind had all they wanted and infinite leisure to enjoy it in. Never mind that none of it was real.

Not one of the records we found suggested why the machines turned against their makers.

But turn they had, and in time the dreamers were rounded up by the same machines that had for decades served as nursemaids. The old went first into the white pyramids the daughters of Columbia raised high on Earth and on every Mericanii colony world across the early stars. The young followed. One by one, two by two, score by score they were carried into the halls of their machine masters.

None came out again.

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Kenotikon

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One of seventy-two weapons built by Mericanii artificial intelligences and housed aboard the Demiurge.

Black shapes hung in blackness, horrors without name. The machine shape of them stuck in my mind like splinters, hanging from the Demiurge’s massive skeleton like the fruit of some horrid vine. Like Kharn’s clone children in their gestation pods. I beheld them for only an instant, but I knew them at once, knew I stood upon the lowest level of the terrible armory. Fortress. Furnace. Font of Kharn’s power.

The Mericanii weapons.

The full scope of their terror and power I could only guess, not knowing then the nature of those dreadful titans or the dumb minds that moved them to their master’s whim.

I know now.

Suzuha’s words resounded in me. Weapons even Father does not understand. Seventy-two of the dreadful machines were there. Some smaller than the Mistral, some large as mountains. The dreadful Leviathans and Behemoths which dwarfed even the colossal war machines of the Imperium. Alien minds had built them, creatures strange and stranger than the dark Brethren of Vorgossos, beings whose intelligence exceeded man’s, perceiving creation with senses beyond my meager comprehension. They had their names, though I was ignorant of them. Kenotikon. Bleteira. Crymainecca.

The Astrophage.

The Astrophage chief of all.

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Bleteira

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One of seventy-two weapons built by Mericanii artificial intelligences and housed aboard the Demiurge.

Black shapes hung in blackness, horrors without name. The machine shape of them stuck in my mind like splinters, hanging from the Demiurge’s massive skeleton like the fruit of some horrid vine. Like Kharn’s clone children in their gestation pods. I beheld them for only an instant, but I knew them at once, knew I stood upon the lowest level of the terrible armory. Fortress. Furnace. Font of Kharn’s power.

The Mericanii weapons.

The full scope of their terror and power I could only guess, not knowing then the nature of those dreadful titans or the dumb minds that moved them to their master’s whim.

I know now.

Suzuha’s words resounded in me. Weapons even Father does not understand. Seventy-two of the dreadful machines were there. Some smaller than the Mistral, some large as mountains. The dreadful Leviathans and Behemoths which dwarfed even the colossal war machines of the Imperium. Alien minds had built them, creatures strange and stranger than the dark Brethren of Vorgossos, beings whose intelligence exceeded man’s, perceiving creation with senses beyond my meager comprehension. They had their names, though I was ignorant of them. Kenotikon. Bleteira. Crymainecca.

The Astrophage.

The Astrophage chief of all.

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Crymainecca

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One of seventy-two weapons built by Mericanii artificial intelligences and housed aboard the Demiurge.

Black shapes hung in blackness, horrors without name. The machine shape of them stuck in my mind like splinters, hanging from the Demiurge’s massive skeleton like the fruit of some horrid vine. Like Kharn’s clone children in their gestation pods. I beheld them for only an instant, but I knew them at once, knew I stood upon the lowest level of the terrible armory. Fortress. Furnace. Font of Kharn’s power.

The Mericanii weapons.

The full scope of their terror and power I could only guess, not knowing then the nature of those dreadful titans or the dumb minds that moved them to their master’s whim.

I know now.

Suzuha’s words resounded in me. Weapons even Father does not understand. Seventy-two of the dreadful machines were there. Some smaller than the Mistral, some large as mountains. The dreadful Leviathans and Behemoths which dwarfed even the colossal war machines of the Imperium. Alien minds had built them, creatures strange and stranger than the dark Brethren of Vorgossos, beings whose intelligence exceeded man’s, perceiving creation with senses beyond my meager comprehension. They had their names, though I was ignorant of them. Kenotikon. Bleteira. Crymainecca.

The Astrophage.

The Astrophage chief of all.

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The Astrophage

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One of seventy-two weapons built by Mericanii artificial intelligences and housed aboard the Demiurge.

Greek root: astro- (star) + phage- (eat)

Black shapes hung in blackness, horrors without name. The machine shape of them stuck in my mind like splinters, hanging from the Demiurge’s massive skeleton like the fruit of some horrid vine. Like Kharn’s clone children in their gestation pods. I beheld them for only an instant, but I knew them at once, knew I stood upon the lowest level of the terrible armory. Fortress. Furnace. Font of Kharn’s power.

The Mericanii weapons.

The full scope of their terror and power I could only guess, not knowing then the nature of those dreadful titans or the dumb minds that moved them to their master’s whim.

I know now.

Suzuha’s words resounded in me. Weapons even Father does not understand. Seventy-two of the dreadful machines were there. Some smaller than the Mistral, some large as mountains. The dreadful Leviathans and Behemoths which dwarfed even the colossal war machines of the Imperium. Alien minds had built them, creatures strange and stranger than the dark Brethren of Vorgossos, beings whose intelligence exceeded man’s, perceiving creation with senses beyond my meager comprehension. They had their names, though I was ignorant of them. Kenotikon. Bleteira. Crymainecca.

The Astrophage.

The Astrophage chief of all.

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