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==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
Like most Exos, Lakshmi was originally a human who lived during the Golden Age. At some point her consciousness was uploaded into a virtual format, presumably by Clovis Bray, and she left her biological form behind to become an Exo. | |||
She would go on to work with the Ishtar Collective, where she became an acquaintance of Maya Sundaresh. During the Collapse, she was among the researchers who traveled to Neptune aboard the ''Exodus Indigo''. At this point, she had undergone one reset, and was known as Lakshmi-2. | |||
===Rebirth on Neptune=== | ===Rebirth on Neptune=== | ||
According to research logs left by [[Chioma Esi]], Lakshmi | According to research logs left by [[Chioma Esi]], the version of Lakshmi known to the people of the Last City was the product of an experiment by [[Maya Sundaresh]] that took place some time after the ''[[Exodus Indigo]]'' brought Maya, Chioma and other [[Ishtar Collective]] researchers to Neptune during the Collapse. After arriving on Neptune, the colonists had discovered a paracausal entity, the [[the Veil|Veil]], on the terraformed surface of the planet, which produced psychic emanations and induced death in all who came into contact with it. Maya and Chioma developed a prototype interface by which researchers could receive and interpret the Veil's psychic signals, but the initial test of the interface resulted in the deaths of all participants. | ||
Undeterred, and against Chioma's wishes, Maya repeated the test with brain-dead Exos whose minds had been wiped during initial contact with the Veil, placing them in the Veil interface in lieu of biological human participants. In doing so, she reversed the machine's function: whereas previously the system was designed to have a single "conductor" guiding an "orchestra" of participants as they communed with the Veil, this new approach directed data from the assembled Exos into a central recipient. For unknown reasons, Maya had also provided her own mental imprint during the test, to be overlaid on that of the central Exo recipient. | Undeterred, and against Chioma's wishes, Maya repeated the test with brain-dead Exos whose minds had been wiped during initial contact with the Veil, placing them in the Veil interface in lieu of biological human participants. In doing so, she reversed the machine's function: whereas previously the system was designed to have a single "conductor" guiding an "orchestra" of participants as they communed with the Veil, this new approach directed data from the assembled Exos into a central recipient. For unknown reasons, Maya had also provided her own mental imprint during the test, to be overlaid on that of the central Exo recipient. | ||
The receiving test subject in this experiment was Lakshmi-2, | The receiving test subject in this experiment was Lakshmi-2, who had undergone brain death like all the other Exos brought on the mission. The experiment resulted in Lakshmi awakening, but with her mind having become either a total or partial copy of Maya's, speaking with Maya's voice and possessing some of her memories. | ||
Little is known of Lakshmi's activities after her revival; at some point she would leave Neptune and return to Earth during the Dark Age, but the circumstances of this are unknown. If she retained memories of her origins on Neptune, she never shared them with anyone, at least outside the Future War Cult.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woNYh2TPILA</ref> | Little is known of Lakshmi's activities after her revival; at some point she would leave Neptune and return to Earth during the Dark Age, but the circumstances of this are unknown. If she retained memories of her origins on Neptune, she never shared them with anyone, at least outside the Future War Cult.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woNYh2TPILA</ref> | ||