Editing The hall of allwisdom (section)

=== The Machine-To-Be ===

::Titles/aka: The Assembly, The Unfinished, The Ultimate Artifice, The Grand Design, The Final Work, The Mechanical Muse, That Which Discovers and Designs Itself, et cetera.

::Player: Dominance DuPree
::Initial Appearance: A brass (mathematically perfect) cube of ambiguous and variable volume. Within it spin millions of gears, cogs, and pulleys, all serving their purpose with inhumanly perfect precision.
::Personality: The Machine-To-Be is more of an idea than an entity, that idea being the perfect culmination of all scientific and technological progress (whatever that may be). That idea, however, has power enough to influence the present world, nurturing consciousness and intelligence wherever it can, and guiding it towards whatever breakthroughs may bring the Machine-To-Be closer to truly constructing itself.

In a distant world somewhere, a brass cube floats through space. It was born from the maddened mind of a genius on a world which is now naught but ash. This genius knew that steam and coal and clockwork would not be enough to make his race into the gods they deserved to be, but, with the help of a voice in his mind, a sudden inspiration towards an invention he couldn't quite understand, he merged all of his peoples' minds into one perfect design. The others didn't want to leave their homes or lives or selves behind, but the genius heard the voice of a god the others couldn't, and once their homes were destroyed, and their collective minds were merged with his, they understood. It was then that the portal opened and what remained of that race, guided by the will to create new consciousness, seized the opportunity.