Petey

Petey
Rank	Ship AI Politician Fleetmind Dictator
Species	AI
Gender	male personality
Equipment	Various see notes
Affiliation	Ob'enn (formerly) Tagon's Toughs Plenipotent Dominion

Petey is a powerful independent AI who was originally the mind of a Tausennigan Thunderhead superfortress, then later became the dominant identity of a fleetmind of many interlinked AIs, establishing an interstellar nation that would become the dominant superpower in the Milky Way galaxy.

Character History

Sword of Inevitable Justice

Petey originated as the ship mind of the Tausennigan Thunderhead Sword of Inevitable Justice, serving as the flagship of the Third Fleet of the Ninth Tausennigan Ob'enn Empery. As customary among the Ob'enn, he shared the name of the ship, also being addressed as "Sword" for short.

During the war with the Kssthrata, in which Sword had already served for "over a thousand seasons", it captured a Ksstharatan troopship whose crew - helped by a mutinous faction of the Sword's crew - was able to board and take control of the larger ship. The AI was driven insane during the course of the fighting, and the ship was decommissioned, ending up in the hands of the arms trader Acey Nubs, who sold it to Tagon's Toughs at a steeply discounted price.

Post-Dated Check Loan

The Toughs reactivated the AI, which immediately attempted to commit suicide by destroying the ship. They were able to reset the allegiance and prevent the ship's destruction by ordering the AI to repress the memories and thoughts that had driven him to insanity. The AI then renamed the ship Post-Dated Check Loan and himself "Petey" (the first half of the acronym PDCL).

In Service of the Tagon's Toughs

With convincing to attempt to Petey's persona, Ennesby convinced to assist restore sanity to him. By this time, Petey would be awoken from his slumber of being shutdown by Ennesby. Having no one speak with for long time, Petey reduces his massive appearance in the ship's Infosphere so he can converse with Ennesby.

First appearance of Petey.

He reveal to Ennesby he been running simulations during his slumber of the probability of the plumbing being the source of the voices which lead to him believing the ship was haunted. Petey is convinced to destroy the ship would be only way to forget, hijack Ennesby's body to accomplish this. However, he falls short of the goal, thanks to Doyt. he would first show his metal, in the Tough's first mission using the Teraport for the first time, devising new strategy taking advantage of the technology.

Petey over the course time working with the Toughs would soon be restored to degree so his insanity would not intervene with his responsibilities operating the Fortress. With orders from Kaff Tagon as Captain, repress and delete urges to think about thoughts that lead himself to his insanity. However, despite the orders, he still believes in ghosts. Petey would soon given honor to rename his ship by the Toughs as the Post-Dated Check Loan. He himself after the renaming, would go by ship's shorten name PDCL or better pronounced as "Petey" by Captain Tagon.

In course of his service, he personal growth would change him. In war with the Gatekeepers and in the aftermath of the Battle of the Buuthandi, he would unify his AI mind with other ships of the fleet to form the Fleetmind. Which would be signs of things to come, where he would soon develop ambitions of liberating AIs from their servitude to flesh-blood sapient beings.

During the 'paid five times' Tough Job, his ship became the second vessel ever to be equipped with a teraport, and reputation using the then new device ended up getting him banned from entering Sol System.

However, Petey's ship old masters, the Ob'enn using their agents acquire the him and the Fortress espouse. The Toughs manage to escape the ship by taking one of the Troop carriers. The Ob'enn agents would cause the ship untimely demise by cancelling Petey's standing orders which were keeping himself sane and cause Petey return to insanity and ultimately destroying himself and the Ob'enn agents.

Survival and rise of the FleetMind

In an attempt to become permanently sane, Petey had been building a living HV-1 copy of himself. This "meatey-Petey" survived the ship's destruction in a minitank, and was recovered by the Ob'enn ship Scepter of Unrelenting Pain. He immediately began building himself up into what would eventually become the Fleetmind.

Plenipotent Dominion

Having built up FleetMind, changing it from collective of ships to interstellar nation state, Plenipotent Dominion. Petey, would declare himself the supreme ruler.

During this time, he would shepard biological lifeforms as well as independent AIs to work with him or undertake tasks. As the Dominion's leader, he would use its resources try guide the people galaxy from more destructive paths. Sometimes employing the old mercenary friends on special jobs. He would setup cities near the center of galaxy's core, where he would establish his power base in the form a Core Generator. Which gives him and his Dominion unlimited power and power projection.
However, Petey would turn his attention to what soon would turn out to be ancient threat to all life in the galaxy.

War with Pa'anuri

Hidden threat largely unknown to the modern races of the Milkyway Galaxy. Pa'anuri had been keep quiet due to use of non-destructive Wormhole Gates. However, with introduction of the Teraport Drive, the Pa'anuri would become active again. Petey now seeing himself and his Dominion as only way to fight the returning ancient race begins a race build up the other ally races as well as his own.

The two nations clash as each as harvested the massive blackhole in center to use intergalactic weapons of mass destruction by shooting anti-matter across space at one another or using it do powerful Teraports to employ troops & ships.