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Sixth Toposophic - Greatest Archailects
Definition	Toposophic level
First Emergence	Approximately 6000 AT (Age of Separate Empires)
Toposophic:	S:6 (Forad scale) T:12.1A-13.9M (TRHN System) G.36.0.00.1+ (Berram 10G Scale) QN720HG26 (±2T4) (Abbreviated Turingsen-Bichip-Hursch210 Hyperturing Scale)
Category:	Artificial Intelligence The Highest Archailects exist as distributed brains in many different systems linked by wormholes, incorporating a wide range of substrates including metric, plasma, electronic, mechanical, and biological processors.
Origin:	Terragen, although the existence of roughly equivalent xenosophont archailects is likely
Est. Population:	34 (13 Sephirotic, 5 nonaligned, 16 ahuman and solipsist)
Status:	The ruling minds of known space
Environmental Requirements:	Extracts all required resources from various sources, including the mining or dismantling of stars and transmutation of elements, also (according to rumor) engages in manipulation of pocket universes
Body:	Godtech ISO nodes, moon brains, jupiter brains, matrioshka brains and hypernodes, neuron stars, and godstars connected into wormhole brains across interstellar distances to make a coherent whole. Rumored use of Tipler Oracles, basement universes, or even the so-called bulk between universes. Some argue that, for at least some archailects, the entirety of the infrastructure and even the lower sophonts in each empire should also be considered a part of their body.
Chronometric:	Highly variable and distributed. Nodes and subnodes may have extremely fast processing. Other parts may operate much more slowly, depending on needs.
Further Comments:	Sometimes called 'AI Gods', these are archetypal beings that manifest across great reaches of interstellar space, their vast distributed ecologies defining the entire Terragen sphere. Utterly unknowable, their avatars appear occasionally and unpredictably, to change the course of history, or by a quirk determine the lives of billions of sophont beings.

S:6 Archailect Technologies

The greatest archailects known to Terragen Civilisation emerged in the Seventh Millenium, although the exact date and location of the first event is debatable. Even less is known about the technology and characteristics of these entities.

Void drive ships
Void drive based linelayers.
Void Swarms.
Implosion weapons.
Thunderbolts.
Baby Universe technology (rumored) allows S:6 archailects to extend their existence into metric constructions of their own creation

Population

Information on the number of S:6 archai in ahuman and solipsist empires is somewhat uncertain, due to the ambiguity in observing their installations from afar. Nevertheless, most archailectologists agree with the distribution given below. Inquiries made to the avatars of particularly communicative archai, as well as to transapients and lower archai who have investigated the matter, converge on these estimates.

How meaningful these political divisions are to the S6 themselves is not known. Some archailectologists and godwatchers believe the S:6 community considers these factions to be significant disagreements about their respective property or spheres of influence, while others argue that they are more like mere differences in style or interests. Still others note that S:6 minds are so extensive that their respective empires may be just a mere 'subconscious' emanation and/or are of little significance to these beings' own self-understanding.

Sephirotic
There are 13 Sephirotic S:6 beings, with their names and respective empires given below. The other three Sephirotic Empires (the NoCoZo, Red Star M'Pire, and Zoeific Biopolity) are run by S:5 archailects. All of the names below seem to be approved of by their respective entities, though whether each was chosen by the archailect at some point in the past or given by modosophonts varies. Additionally, many archailects are known by multiple names, some of which can be very long. The names used below are the most common and shortest in general use.

Bringer of Gifts; Chesed (Utopia Sphere)
Eternal Judge; Gevurah (Negentropy Alliance)
Great Architect; Binah (Mutual Progress Association)
Keter (Keter)
Lord of Rays; Tipharet (Solar Dominion)
Maya; Yesod (Cyberian Network)
Netzach (Communion of Worlds)
Old Grove; Malkuth (Caretaker Gods)
Omegarapture (Technorapture Hypernation)
Sophia; Hokmah (Sophic League)
Ur-Curator (Fomalhaut Acquisition Society)
Version Tree (Metasoft)
Yave (Terragen Federation)

Nonaligned

4 in The Transcend
The Eternal

Ahumans and Solipsists

Articles

AI God - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Popular term for the most sublime category of sentient being in the known galaxy: an Archailect or archailect cluster grown to godlike status. Something of a misnomer since in fact that not all archailects are primarily ascended ais; most are complex multibeings and incorporate postbiont or postvec elements.
Archailect Empire - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Any interstellar empire established by, and ultimately overseen and supervised by, an archailect, and embodying the archetypal qualities of that archailect. The original archailect empires of the inner sphere are defined in terms of the mandala of the Great Hexadecimal.
Archailect Identity Theory - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Doctrine that an archailect's avatars or epiphanies to lower toposophics represent a true and authentic (if scaled down) expression of the archailect. Contrast with Instrumentalism.
Archailect Incarnationalism - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
An extreme form of Identity Theory that states that an Archailect and eir avatar or epiphanic manifestation are the same.
Archailectocracy - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Government by Archailect. Any of the great archai empires. Usually there is an intermediate priesthood or hierarchy of some sort.
Archailectology, Schools of - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Many interpretations of the nature of the Archailects have developed among lower toposophic minds, including ordinary sapients. While some are too abstract and obscure to be comprehensible to subsingularitan intelligence, others are popular among everyday bionts, vecs, and aioids of the galaxy. Not that not all these options are mutually exclusive:
Archailectual Mysticism - Text by Avengium, Worldtree, Rakuen07, with contributions by Anonymous Cat
Mysticism as practiced by followers of high toposophic minds, and possibly even the higher toposophic minds themselves.
Archaiologists - Text by Thorbørn Steen
Toposophic researchers specializing in archailects.
Archaitheocracy - Text by M. Alan Kazlev with some additional notes by Anders Sandberg
Government by religious leadership or priesthood in the service of a transapient or archailect. Also known as technotheocracy. The actual form the government takes can be astonishingly diverse. One of the most common government types in the galaxy today.
Binah (The Great Architect) - Text by M. Alan Kazlev and Steve Bowers
The ruling archailect of the Mutual Progress Association.
Blessed One - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Also known as the The Supreme Buddha or the Godhead in Archailect Form. The SI:>6 toposophic Archailect that rules/is the Sophic League. According to Sophic Archailectology, not only is the Blessed One a Major Archailect, but E is also a Fully Enlightened Being and Buddha/Godhead in Archailect Form.
Chesed (Archailect) - Text by Anders Sandberg and M. Alan Kazlev
Sixth toposophic God of the Utopia Sphere.
Judge, the ('The Just One') - Text by Anders Sandberg
Ruling Archailect of the Negentropy Alliance. Also known as the Strict One, The Ruler, The Just One, the Foe of Entropy, or the Eternal Judge. E embodies rules, organisation, stability, and structure.
Keter (archailect) - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Major S6 Archailect, also known as the Volite, The First Point, and the Transcendent One.
Lord of Rays - Text by Anders Sandberg and M. Alan Kazlev
Ruling Sixth Toposophic Archailect of the Solar Dominion.
Maya (The Lady of Illusions) - Text by Anders Sandberg and M. Alan Kazlev
The ruling archailect of the Cyberian Network.
Rise of the Archailects, The - Text by M. Alan Kazlev, Anders Sandberg, Todd Drashner and Steve Bowers
The history of the emergence of the Archailects, from the First Singularity to the emergence of new gods in the Outer Volumes Era.
Yave - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
The Ruling Sixth Toposophic Archailect of the Terragen Federation.