Isoptaline

The Isoptaline were a group of posthuman artificial intelligence uploads. (PROSE: Salutation) Asirite was part of the Isoptaline. (PROSE: Weighty Questions)

History
The Isoptaline were the settlers of a colony on the remote world of Isoptal. The planet was a barren inhospitable wasteland but rich with natural resources. To allow for colonisation they uploaded their consciousness' to machines and left their organic bodies behind.

Isoptalines lived in collectives, each residing in a "Mound" on the planet, It was from the mound that their consciousness were simulated, moving away from which would result in the remote body shutting down.

early on in the colony's development the colonists began to specialise when it became apparent that some were better suited to the control of remote drones to facilitate mining, and others in the handling of data across the shared network of the mound.

Upper
The upper handled the management of the colony and were given greater amounts of "cycles" on the network. essentially more time to run their personality and remain aware. they resided in the upper section of the mound and unaccessable to Lowers by way of the gate installed in the main hall. The upper were denoted by the use of the pronoun Ur.

Lower
Lowers were the labour force of the Mound and were far more limited than the uppers, their great numbers meant far less cycles were dedicated to them and their bodies would continue to work autonomously in the absence of their consciousness. Eventually the lower would find a way to redistribute their accumulated cycles and allow groups of them longer access to the network in shifts. The pronoun used for Lowers was Lor.

Deaths
The Isoptaline first died during the transition from organic to technological bodies when their consciousness' were either copied or moved.

The colony Isoptaline were wiped out when a missile devastated the planet and destroyed the mounds resulting in their deaths.

Resurrection day
As a post human species the Isoptaline were resurrected along with the rest of humanity within the city of the saved. upon awakening they found themselves within recreations of the mounds and their native world, again rich in resources ready to be mined.

They took a solid isolationist stance on whether to involve themselves with the city proper after learning just what had happened to them, their supposed deaths and rebirths denied by the Upper who sought a rational justification for the changes they faced.

The Upper Aasirite would attempt to ease their worries after communicating with the city's own vast data net and discovering they were no longer cut off from the rest of the universe. Even going so far as to suggest abandoning the mound for the city were they could procure new bodies for urselves, this deeply unsettled the Uppers and they banished ur to the domain of the Lowers where Ur was subjected to the limited cycles afforded to their kind.

The Lowers would later stage a rebellion spurred on by Aasirite and Lor knowledge as to the Mounds workings. The mound continued to exist as a mostly isolationist district for sometime after with most not ready to abandon the lives they had come to know.

Discovering Ur existed elsewhere in the city (The original forms of the Isoptalines before their uploads also having been resurrected) Aasirite would embezzle resources from the mound as payment for a new custom body. Finished with the mound Ur walked to the edge of the Mounds range and uploaded herself to the City data net to be downloaded into her new body elsewhere in the city with the fate of the other Isoptaline uncertain.