God (The Also People)

God was an artificial intelligence which managed and watched over the Worldsphere and the People.

Early history
God created itself and was given its name as a joke whilst it did so, but the name stuck. Whilst most of it was located on Whynot, it had nodes throughout the Worldsphere and was charged with managing the Sphere and controlling the environment. It created the Wilderness Recreation Area when the Sphere was first built. (PROSE: The Also People)

When God was young, the insane People were sent to the siCeralca ri!Qisla and it promised to look after them. It sent !X to Paradise when he was found to be capable of overcoming its safeguards and decreed that he should never be released. (PROSE: Down)

God was part of the group that negotiated the treaty between the People and the Time Lords. It was decided that it would be forbidden for it to have Gallifreyan in its linguistic files. (PROSE: The Also People)

The Gods of Dellah
Its right hand and data organiser was Gabriel, later known as Clarence. (PROSE: Ghost Devices)

Irving Braxiatel founded the Department of Theatrology at St Oscar's University and once said that being on Dellah made him "feel closer to God". (PROSE: Dragons' Wrath)

God became aware that Bernice Summerfield would play a role in the war against the Ferutu and sent J-Kibb, disguised as a porter, to St Oscar's to spy on her. (PROSE: Tears of the Oracle) Shortly after, it sent two human agents on behalf of the Tiny and Interesting Interest Group to recruit her as an agent, (PROSE: Oh No It Isn't!) although its real reason for doing so was distract her so that she would not realise what it was actually doing. (PROSE: Down) Benny agreed to the offer. (PROSE: Oh No It Isn't!)

God manipulated several events including MEPHISTO and !X on Tyler's Folly. It sent Benny on what appeared to be an investigation to Canopus IV, also making Benny intervene on the People's behalf as their agent, especially in temporal events. (PROSE: Down, Ghost Devices, Walking to Babylon)

Abilities
God was able to plant cultural filters in the neural nets of People, complete with a censorship function, to allow them to understand alien dialects. (PROSE: Down)

Personality
God came across as a normal and "fairly pleasant" man with an expressive voice. (PROSE: The Also People) Although it was sometimes referred to with masculine pronouns, (PROSE: Oh No It Isn't!, etc.) it indicated that it did not have a gender. It was a member of the Anti-Machine Interest Group and did not identify as a computer. (PROSE: The Also People)