Man’s greatest achievement became his greatest error, artificial intelligence was supposed to liberate humans and for a time it did, before it turned and tried to enslave and finally, eliminate them. The AI Wars were long and bloody, at least for humanity, and ended only with the surviving sentient machines (‘sents’) fled into the outer rims of known space. But AI doesn’t sleep, it plans, builds and waits for the opportunity to finish its programming, the end of man.

The AI nature of this faction and its members, causes it to be known as the synths, or the sents.