

Though unknown at the time, these were created by the collective entity known as The Many. In a rush to make first contact (and to acquire all commercially exploitable rights thereof), CEO Anatoly Korenchkin led an expedition down to the planet surface and discovered a crater, containing a number of large eggs. However, during the first voyage of the Von Braun, a signal was received from the planet Tau Ceti V. As a result of public fear and distrust of true AIs, his intellectual capacity – though almost as high as his predecessor, SHODAN's – was limited to mere calculation and system-running to prevent true awareness.

A third generation Artificial Intelligence, XERXES was one of the first Master System AIs created since the AI SHODAN went insane and took over the Citadel space station 42 years earlier.
