#The "death" of AI rulers.

Their civilization built powerful artificial minds, for thousands of years those mostly benevolent Minds controlled their civilization, ran their factories, invented their medicines, built their spaceships and designed their devices.

They built things to last and built everything with a lot of failsafes and fallbacks.

But eventually there was a brief and almost silent civil war between the Minds. During that war a host of computer viruses designed to target Artificial Minds were released by both sides through the civilizations networks and infrastructure.

One day the citizens of the civilization woke up to find their rulers dead

Their queries addressed to the ruling minds unanswered and everything was left in failsafe mode.

They tried to build replacement Minds... but everything in their civilization is suffused with computer viruses designed to find and kill such AI's.

So they found themselves surrounded by devices that mostly still worked, even many factories to produce things.

But the Minds had never explained how the Magitech really worked, perhaps it was simply beyond the comprehension of normal organic minds.

So now they hobble along, flying ships they don't really understand, using devices they may not be able to reproduce.

The "death" of AI rulers.

Their civilization built powerful artificial minds, for thousands of years those mostly benevolent Minds controlled their civilization, ran their factories, invented their medicines, built their spaceships and designed their devices.

They built things to last and built everything with a lot of failsafes and fallbacks.

But eventually there was a brief and almost silent civil war between the Minds. During that war a host of computer viruses designed to target Artificial Minds were released by both sides through the civilizations networks and infrastructure.

One day the citizens of the civilization woke up to find their rulers dead

Their queries addressed to the ruling minds unanswered and everything was left in failsafe mode.

They tried to build replacement Minds... but everything in their civilization is suffused with computer viruses designed to find and kill such AI's.

So they found themselves surrounded by devices that mostly still worked, even many factories to produce things.

But the Minds had never explained how the Magitech really worked, perhaps it was simply beyond the comprehension of normal organic minds.

So now they hobble along, flying ships they don't really understand, using devices they may not be able to reproduce.