Guardian of Piri (computer)
a.k.a.
What
A highly advanced but morally simplistic computer
charged by its now-extinct makers (aliens to the Alphans)
to maintain the
Peace of Piri,
a supposedly utopian state of living that
is ultimately lethal to its creators and
is apparently having a similar effect on the Alphans.
Destroyed when an
Alphan, namely
Cmdr. Koenig,
shoots and destroys the Guardian's
"Servant."
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Details
- Capable of taking over
Main Computer.
- Capable of influencing sentient minds
(Alphans -- and evidently its own apparently long-dead people).
- Creates and uses an android calling itself the
Servant of the Guardian
to interact with beings that fall into Piri's area of space.
Took a female human shape and voice for 'benefit'
of interacting with the Alphans.
- Appears and disappears on its own accord.
It is unclear if this is some sort of cloaking or via
near-instantaneous transport from
elsewhere on the planet (or maybe another dimension).
Perhaps transport, given the following point.
- When the Servant is destroyed by an Alphan,
the Guardian itself soon follows,
with no further action by the Alphans,
suggesting the Guardian extended vital aspects
of itself into the Servant.