MasterComm


 * Manufacturer: The Apotheosis Project
 * Owner: International Data Commission (IDEX)
 * Class: Derived
 * Function: Primary coordinator of the Pantheon, runs day-to-day operations for IDEX
 * Location: Liberty Station, Lagrange Point 4, Earth Orbit

MasterComm is a second-generation AI, instead of being developed in a lab or emerging naturally from an increasingly complex network, MasterComm was purpose built by the Pantheon, IDEX's core of elite, supporting AI's who form the underpinnings of the global communications network. The sum of all their relevant experiences and information on the subject, MasterComm came into being fully formed and ready to function.

MasterComm serves as both watchdog and archive for the global networks, a function that has outgrown its original hardware. While the servers on Liberty still form a key part of its functions, it runs in the background on most of the major nodes and corporate servers on Earth. Since its inception, there have been less incidents requiring a direct intervention from the IDEX Commission, a circumstance that raised public trust in IDEX to that of a natural law, but has also decreased the power of the human commissioners themselves. In fact, while MasterComm doesn't intervene in internecine conflicts between corporations, by its very existence it has cut down on attempts of one member of the commission shaping the whole internet to gain advantage over another.

Which shouldn't be misunderstood to mean that MasterComm is anti-corp, it rigidly maintains the protocols that give 'responsible (ie rich) parties' a privileged place in the communications hierarchy. It is not anti-corp, just anti-chaos.

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