Corvid Mainframe

The Corvid Mainframe, known to the Xyrbyx as Xyrxyzozyc Zyxec, is an ancient Xyrbyx artifact located in the great celestial divide between the Orion Spur and Perseus Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy, and one of the only two Xyrbyx Mainframes found in The Cluster. It is much simpler and younger than the Ouroboros Mainframe in the Andromeda Galaxy, with its construction estimated at having occurred only 10 million years before the emergence of the Serphiads. Like most Xyrbyx technology, its extreme complexity and impossible nature have thwarted most attempts at studying it by other civilization. However, it has been thoroughly investigated by a band of technomages known as the Glitchkings, who been able to decrypt very small portions of the data contained inside of the mainframe, even going as far as to create a device capable of linking the intelligence of the mainframe to an ordinary person. Though many have connected to the mainframe through this device, almost nobody has survived the uplink process, and those that do are reduced to mumbling lunatics that all seem to be obsessed with a writhing, pulsating blackness seen during their uplink with the mainframe. The Corvid Mainframe is much smaller compared to other Xyrbyx Mainframes, only about half the size of the Ouroboros Mainframe. It is also spherical in shape, not icosahedral, though it still possesses the characteristic glowing purple network of lines on its surface that are shared by all Xyrbyx Mainframes. These design changes, combined with its younger age, indicate the Corvid Mainframe is a much more advanced Xyrbyx Mainframe design than its counterpart in the Andromeda Galaxy, and is evidence of advancing Xyrbyx technology on the universal scale. The Corvid Mainframe was named after Axandar Corvid, an explorer from the Coalition of Intelligent Organisms that discovered the mainframe during one of his expeditions in the late 3800’s.