Datacore

The datacore (also known as the Orion Cube) is a piece of technology of unknown origin, that floats in the orbit of rigel. It is a Cube made out of a unknown material and is estimated to have the same size as eath's moon.

The cube is inhabited by a self-aware computer programm that calls itself the light of orion. This program can transfer itself across long distances, into any kind of computer system and takes it over. Spacecrafts that are under controll of the data core, patroll the entire galaxy, to spread the light of orion. The motives of the datacore are unknown, since all beings that are not willing to comply with it's demands, will be atacked and those who comply, were brought to the rigel system and never returned.

There are not many possibilities to defend against the datacore. Only powerful Techpsychics and a special security programm, developed by the Brotherhood of Mars, are able to fend off the light of orion.