Naoka Linst was an only child of a sister marine. Her mother was the first of her family to join the sisters and served with distinction earning her daughter the privilege of joining when she was 3. Naoka exceeded all expectations and was accepted by the madam of Io Station as her personal guardian. She became well known as a skilled assassin and rumored to have eliminated over a hundred targets during her brief career before she was elevated to the rank of madam by her predecessor's sudden death.
She married the only son of her predecessor and had seven daughters, the youngest two Mei and Pei. To her dismay, her madam was also of no notable bloodline and this earned her ire as she yearned to be accepted among the elite of the sisters who all could establish a connection to Anna or Olivia.
Sophia was well acquainted with madam Naoka as her first mission was to Io Station to retrieve the child of sister Marina from an illicit affair. Marina was punished for the birth of Felicia that was non-sanctioned. She was placed in the care of Naoka along with two other girls from different mothers and in total five heirs of Olivia.
Sophia made it known to Naoka she knew exactly her obsession and placed all the hidden heirs in her charge. She had no secret ploy. If she so desired to end all the old bloodlines, she had them within arms reach.
Naoka seethed at such an accusation, but accepted the five girls and placed them with each of her five eldest daughters. For being found wanting, she accepted the sacrifice of her youngest daughter Pei who she sent on a suicide mission to Triton. Anna Three felt insulted by her sending a novice and exacted her own price with the death of two of her older daughters.
In exchange for the executions, Sophia granted Anna Three what the Proto-Artesians had long desired, the cybernetic brain of a devil beetle. It was the Proto-Artesians goal to awaken a fully sentient life form and from their interpretations of the texts of the Ancients they believed their ancestors were on the verge of imbuing the essence and memories of a long dead Alpha Centauri into a mechanical automaton.
They found the near dead creature buried deep within Proxima Centauri B, in the final throes of the viral disease and kept alive through suspended animation. Our ancestors locked eyes and a billion years passed in an instant. The sheer audacity as they severed the head and then preserved it in a biomechanical gel.
In time they were able to recreate and clone the alien brain for every individual neuron synapses and produce the hundreds of copies that reside in each of the devil beetles. All were considered imperfect, except for the original and through the work of their founder Edgar he was able to identify the correct beetle.
Through wars and intrigue Edgar's computer brain as he described it was stolen by the sisters and carried on the first starships. Olivia brought it with her to Alpha Centauri, but decided against leaving it there as she predicted correctly mankind would return to the dead planet. She entrusted it to a relatively unknown sister Rebecca Linst on Io Station and whose dynasty by default became madams without claim to any bloodline.
In their folly a descendant of Linst took on Naoka as a protege and later her daughter by marriage to entrust her the location of the cybernetic brain. And as a bargaining chip Naoka later surrendered it to Sophia to spare some of her daughters. Linst had warned never to reveal it to a descendant of Olivia as her ancestors were warned by Olivia herself to destroy it rather than let it eventually fall back in the hands of the Proto-Artesians who wish to bring about the return of the Alpha Centaurians.
The old tomes that Olivia gathered from an extinct sect known as the Ancients detailed mankinds obsession with reincarnating an Alpha Centauri and they nearly succeeded. Their woeful lack of skill and understanding of their technology required producing behemoths the size of tall skyscrapers to house and sustain the artificial copies of the alien brain. A war broke out between various factions, many who opposed awakening a creature who looked down upon man as inferior and wanted to annihilate us, but a rarefied few who controlled most of the government were optimistic as they championed the existence of that one sympathetic System Lord, for reasons unclear saved mankind.
On the eve of mankind's awakening of the computer brain, many chose to flee and were shot down in great number by the automatic programming of the devil beetles. Those who had already traveled and built the foundations of the great colonies, were left stranded and in time perished. By design they were made dependent on Earth and looked despondently towards their home that had turned its back on them and withered away.
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