The Mechanical Emperor's Wars, also known as the Anti-Organic Wars, are a series of two wars which engulfed half the cosmos and plunged many civilizations into abject ruin. The first war was initiated by Rubert I after it assembled an army of intelligent robots and spread the Anti-Organic Equation throughout the universe with the goal of eradicating organic life.[1]
The Second Emperor's War, sometimes referred to as the Second Rubert Rebellion[2] or the Second Machine Crisis,[3] was initiated by Rubert II.
Background[]
After the Swarm Disaster, the Interastral Peace Corporation went through a reorganization through the efforts of the collaboration between two IPC executives, Korapao of the Cargo Division and Telora Farnsha from the Trade Division that would result in a mass expansion.[4] However, conflict began to build up between two, leading to the Borderstar Trade War,[5] as according to the first unchangeable moment of Nous' calculations.[6]
Following the outbreak of the war, Fuli the Remembrance emerged during the IPC founder Louis Fleming's retirement speech. As memories surfaced from THEIR presence, the Candelagraphos of the Intelligentsia Guild wrote down three paragraphs about the memories, drawing three revelations. The first was Nous' calculation: The universe will undergo three unchangable moments, the first of which had already happened with the start of the Boardstar Trade War. The second was the Finality's prediction: A silk accessory suitable for women will bring about the end of the war. The third was the Enigmata's riddle: THEY leave no question, but the answers are “blood” and “flower.” After evaluating the three revelations of the Aeons, the Candelagraphos believed it would lead to an equation, and some divisions of the IPC began to carry out construction in inorganic life zones.[7]
Later, a computer discarded in a graveyard awoke from the landfill after gaining self-awareness.[6] After breaking out of the graveyard with a cannon created from scraps,[8] Rubert began to persistently improve its computational system. Eventually, it arrived at the conclusion that the algorithm of organic beings are inherently flawed, and saw little value in their existence. Believing that the calculations performed by them will forever be riddled with errors, Rubert proclaimed the Machine Empire and crowned itself as emperor to combat the organic lifeforms.[1] Charged with hatred and aspiration to rid the cosmos of imperfect beings, Rubert I initiated the Mechanical Emperor's Wars while the Borderstar Trade War was still undergoing.[6]
First Mechanical Emperor's War[]
Before the creation of the anti-life equation, the Mechanical Empire used brute force against organic life.[9] During the wars, the Tottonids were eradicated by organic creatures for siding with the Mechas.[10]
By rapidly improving its computing power, Rubert eventually discovered the Anti-Organic Equation.[1] This equation could be infiltrate minds of beings without noticeable effects. However, when activated in inorganic beings, it corrupts their consciousness, aligning them with the emperor's goal of exterminating all organic life in the universe.[11]
After this, for unknown reasons, Rubert fell into a slumber. Aha the Elation and Mythus the Enigmata watched on as the Machine Empire crumbled in its absence. However, Rubert was eventually awakened by a group of organic beings walking on the Trailblaze while they were traversing into the Mechanical City. As it rose from slumber, the inorganic lives implanted with the Anti-Organic Equation was activitated, forcing them to instinctively kill any organic beings.[12]
The equation was later discovered in some organic beings plundering resources from other planets by the Technology Division of the IPC, leading them to conclude that the equation did not follow thoughts, but altered them.[11] It's able to make inorganic beings question their humanity and convince organics that they were machines. Later, Korapao and his subordinates in the Cargo Division attempted to decipher the logic behind the equation, succeeding to synthesize a replica of it. He ordered his organic subordinates to have the replica implanted into their minds to avail the benefits of inorganic lives.[5] The sheer complexity of this equation attracted the gaze of Nous, and Rubert was sent an invitation to the Genius Society by the Aeon, becoming its 27th member. This fulfilled the second moment as calculated by the Erudition.[6]
Laurel Wreath Galaxy[]
According to Rubert's equation, the Philosopher Union that controlled the Laurel Wreath Galaxy was certain to be destroyed by the Machine Empire. The the inorganic lives within the Union fell under the influence of the Anti-Organic Equation was driven to exterminate all organic beings around them, erupting a civil war between inorganic and organic lifeforms in the Galaxy.[13] The inorganic lifeforms imprisoned the leader of the Union, Aurelius, in the Union's meeting place, then executed him in the name of Rubert and the Machine Empire by the means of lethal poisoning as humiliation for being the sole representative and leader of all living beings in the galaxy.[14] Left without a leader, the organic lives was soon defeated and the Union was reduced it to the domain of inorganic life.[15] The countless number of scholars died in this event led the IPC to deem this occurrence "Rationality's Fall".[13]
Followers of Elation started a riot after the fall of the Union, infecting Rubert's computer system with a troll virus called the "Philosopher's Poison" and overthrowing the local robot army.[15] Later, the Stellaron Hunters disseminated the virus across all of the Golcondar's colonies to take their Stellaron, causing millions of inorganic entities to turn into rampant machines.[16]
The Xianzhou Alliance[]
In Year 3287 Star Calendar, the Aurumatons unleashed a slaughter against the Xianzhou Alliance under the influence of Rubert, following the Civil War of the Xianzhou Yuanqiao. The coarse and the venerable reached an agreement and united forces to fight the Aurumatons' rebellion. In 3290, Zhige, the master primus of the aurumaton, led a force aboard the Xianzhou Yaoqing. Their combined forces launched an offensive operation, shattering the Aurumatons into pieces. All of the remaining aurumatons were herded into the arsenal and suppressed by talismans, stripping them of self-awareness. Those disassembled while retaining the ability to think had all records of the era eradicated from their Jade Abacus to make sure they pose no further threat in the future.[17][18]
Conclusion[]
Out of belief that Nous' calculations are absolute, Genius Society member #4 Polka Kakamond took it upon to carry out the final moment of THEIR calculation.[19] From the onset of the war, she already began to conspire in Rubert's death. At the invitation of the IPC, she interrogated mechanical overlord Ludia Perthesius of the Machine Empire, seeking whereabouts regarding Rubert.[20] Although she made numerous attempts on Rubert's life before, none came to avail.[19] Only after the war had raged on for several Amber Eras did the moment Nous had foreseen arrive and allow her to succeeded.[21]
Despite the efforts made by HooH the Equilibrium and Mythus the Enigmata to challenge Nous' calculations and alter its fate, all that changed was the angle at which Polka's scalpel pierced Rubert's chest. As the third moment occurred, Emperor Rubert I's gargantuan body collapsed along with its empire. Its death marked the end of the First Mechanical Emperor's War and fulfilled the Finality's predictions.[22]
In the aftermath of the war, rumors spread that Rubert was either taken out by Polka Kakamond or an assassin hired by the Interastral Peace Corporation,[1] but both may have been true. It was later revealed that the co-founder of the Corporation Dongfang Qixing had associated himself with Polka Kakamond, leveraging her political influence and keeping the war in control with omens, possibly relating to the Finality.[23]
Second Mechanical Emperor's War[]
Many years following the death of Rubert I and the end of the First Emperor's War, a human visited its grave and solved the Anti-Organic Equation during his stay. Despite successfully deriving the solution thousands of times, he refused to speak of its answer, well aware of the consequences should the equation be activated. As a result, his achievement was met with doubt and he remained just as impoverish as before he set off. Soon after his return, he found himself plagued by increasingly negative thoughts, which not only affected his mind but also manifest physically in his limbs and torso. Suddenly, it occurred to him that all organic lives were machines made for deceptive purposes, while he was the only being with free will. In a morose declaration, he resolved that he would carry on Rubert I's will to eradicate all organic lives from the cosmos.[24]
Although it's likely that this man was Rubert II, who professed to have inherited the memories of Rubert I and initiated the second Emperor's War,[25] Ruan Mei claimed that it's impossible for Rubert II to exist during the First Emperor's War, as it occurred far too long ago.[6] Not much is known of the Second Emperor's War onwards.
Aftermath[]
During the first war, the inhabitants of Adlivun were left devastated by the Machine Empire before it entered in another struggle with the remnants of The Swarm. The destruction brought by both conflicts led to the ascension of Nanook as an Aeon.[26] Many antiques of high value were also destroyed, such as the Last Phonograph of Order created by Beyond the Sky Choir.[27]
After the Second Rubert Rebellion, the IPC invested vast amounts of credits to repeatedly investigate the remains of Rubert II. To their surprise, Rubert II was found to be an organic being.[25]
The comparable damage inflicted by these two wars to that of the Swarm Disaster prompted the IPC to consider the extermination of all mechanical life forms across the cosmos. However, before the plan was passed, the they heard that Screwllum, a mechanical life-form, was selected by Nous to join the Genius Society as member #76. They gifted Screwllum the Mechanical Cuckoo Clock as a symbol of peace.[2]
Screwllum actively opposes Rubert, and continues to do so today.[28]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Data Bank, Terms: Rubert the Emperor (Character)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Simulated Universe, Curio: Mechanical Cuckoo Clock
- ↑ Simulated Universe, Curio: Black Forest Cuckoo Clock
- ↑ Simulated Universe, Gold and Gears, Secrets: Judged as Organic: Associates (I)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Simulated Universe, Gold and Gears, Secrets: Broadened Cognition: Associates (II)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Simulated Universe, Gold and Gears, Secrets: Finale
- ↑ Simulated Universe, Gold and Gears, Secrets: Supreme Inorganic: God's Three Revelations (I)
- ↑ Item: Disposable Kinetic Cannon
- ↑ Item: Disposable Kinetic Arm
- ↑ Readable: Species of the Galaxy: Tottonid
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Simulated Universe, Gold and Gears, Secrets: Broadened Cognition: Universe's Throne (II)
- ↑ Simulated Universe, Gold and Gears, Secrets: Anti-Organic War (II)
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Simulated Universe, Curio: Rationality's Fall
- ↑ Memory Bubble: Fall of Logic
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Readable: Glimpses into the Beyond, "Inquiry Into The Gods: The Sacrosancts"
- ↑ Honkai: Star Rail (August 12, 2023). Myriad Celestia Trailer: The Jepella Rebellion — Scene 47, YouTube. Retrieved May 27, 2024.
- ↑ Readable: History of the Xianzhou: Errata
- ↑ NPC dialogue: Aurumaton President
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Simulated Universe, Gold and Gears, Secrets: Supreme Organic: Sanguine Condolences (II)
- ↑ Simulated Universe, Gold and Gears, Secrets: Broadened Cognition: Liquid Gold (II)
- ↑ Simulated Universe, Gold and Gears, Secrets: Emperor Rubert (I)
- ↑ Simulated Universe, Gold and Gears, Secrets: Emperor Rubert (II)
- ↑ Simulated Universe, Gold and Gears, Secrets: Supreme Inorganic: Sanguine Condolences (III)
- ↑ Simulated Universe, Gold and Gears, Secrets: Broadened Cognition: Bad Thought (II)
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 Simulated Universe, Curio: Rubert Empire Mechanical Cogwheel
- ↑ Simulated Universe, Aeons: Nanook: Dev Log2
- ↑ Simulated Universe, Curio: Record from Beyond the Sky
- ↑ Assignment: Born to Obey