Guardians

This article contains information about the group of A.I's known as guardians, for a specific member see 'Members'

Overview
The Guardians are A.I's created by the original inhabitants of Old Earth tasked with protecting humanity. The Guardians are pure data and exist only in the Datasea, Guardians have been known to walk among humans in special interfaces grown specially for parties etc. The guardians are mostly perceived as gods and their knowledge is completely transcendental. According to Raven the Guardians are over-protective and refuse to let humans discover the galaxy.

Ruling
The Guardians are generally content with living in the Datasea and letting the Emperor or Empress rule. However the Imperial College of Data Divers relay infrequent messages between guardian and human. Most people view the one with favor from the guardians to be the true ruler.

Members
The exact number is 12 (see In-Depth), here are some of the known members:
 * Anais Six
 * Shiguri Monad
 * Sfax Systema
 * Mordaunt 90 Network or Mordaunt 60 Network (see Railhead: Errors)
 * Vohu Mana
 * The Twins

In-Depth
At some point in the 21st century CE, on Old Earth humans created artificial inteligences which turned out to be superior to humans, intellectually. How many there were and the order in which they were created is a topic of much debate and some even believe that there were more than 12 but the weakest were deleted, in hiding or just don't care about humanity. Even of the 12 several have always remained 'aloof' from human affairs. The others, Mordaunt Sixty Network; Sfax Systema; Anais Six; The Twins, Vohu Mana and Shiguri Monad- guided humans. Their personalities are spread across the whole Datasea and their code is stored in 'deep data centers like on Grand Central or even separate 'hardware-planets'. Every scientific and technological advancement has come from the Guardians and several have been 'suppressed' for the reason of

"not in humanities interest"

However, in recent years the guardians seldom speak to humans.