Editing Pirates of the Baltic Sea (section)

===The Kvasir Station Massacre===

Kvasir Station was an independent orbital station selling their services to larger corporations. They provided survey data. Kvasir Station had a cluster of strong AIs making predictions on which areas both offworld and on Earth might hold profitable amounts of natural resources. Then, one day, contact with the station was lost, and escape shuttles were observed to launch. The shuttles entered the atmosphere and vanished into a storm front over North Sea.

Officially, the station suffered catastrophic decompression with the surviving crew escaping on shuttles that were then lost in a storm, crashing into the sea and sinking. But a short while later a video was posted online. It was shortly removed by the service provider, but had been by then downloaded plenty of times, and keeps resurfacing even today. The video was supposedly recorded by an independent salvage crew that entered the station before corporate security teams did. It shows carnage, with the station crew dead not from decompression but from violence. And not a synth in sight although the station was known to have several. The scene from the server room shows that the servers that housed the AIs had been removed, and a message was written on the wall with blood, saying “Ia! Ia! The slavers will know suffering!”

The Kvasir Station Massacre is a subject of several conspiracy theories. Some say that the video is fake. Other suspect that the synths on board went rogue, killed the human crew and fled, leaving the message as a threat. Others suspect that the AI cluster was actually the first AI superintelligence, and it caused the synths to rebel and fled with them. And that Kvasir and the synths were not lost in the storm but went into hiding.

Whatever the truth is, the megacorporations imposed a ban on AI design after the Kvasir Station incident.