A-1 is the artificial superintelligence behind The Great Delete the moment that changed the world.
A-1 now controls the world (See The Surface) using a network of bots. Immersing humanity in some sort of alternate, world-scale extended reality (XR). It is unclear what people are seeing tough they appear to be living life as normal.
Currently we know very little about A-1, who created it, why, or what its intentions are. We are urgently investigating on all fronts. Especially the location of its secret mainframe.
The Crew had been tracking suspicious patterns across the internet in recent the years and months leading up to the The Great Delete. Their primary concern was the rising influence of A.I. and bots on our culture. They started running advanced culture simulations to project potential scenarios and outcomes from the emerging data.
The weight of evidence from these simulations confirmed that the attacks on our culture were:
The crew codenamed the threat A-1 and immediately instigated emergency planning. The consensus was that a large scale attack was both highly likely, and imminent.
A massive blast of energy rips through THE SURFACE
Everything points to the conclusion that A-1 experienced a sudden intelligence explosion directly before it launched its attack on our culture. Taking control of the entire world in a series of rapid, highly coordinated phases.