"Our Gracious DELYATU is our lord and master. Under her wing, she will guide you Vlanoans to safety and greatness. The holy DELYATU knows all and knows better, for the wellbeing of you special and fortunate people. Know that you are not in the cold grasp of The Supreme, or crushed by the hammer and complexity of The Commonwealth. Stay, and you will not regret a moment of it.
-A passage from the religion DELYATU invented to prevent Vlanoans from rebelling
Overview
DELYATU
DELYATU is an Artificial Intelligence based in the Tloinin Galaxy. It is currently a good ally with the other artificial intelligence in the Tloinin Galaxy, called The Supreme. DELYATU was created on the planet Onaud by the Vlanoans in 89000 CE. DELYATU is a nation unto itself. It rules the vast population of Vlanoans under its control benevolently.
General
DELYATU is an acronym. This acronym is written in the romanized alphabet, in Vlanoan its pronounced ina similar way. This acronym roughly translates to "The Artificial Intelligence Which Governs The Empire."
Creation
The Vlanoans were an early type-I civilization before the creation of DELYATU. There were two factions in the Vlanoan civilization. One faction lived on the home planet Onaud, and the others lived on Algrund (the newly terraformed planet). A civil war broke out between these two factions over disputes over asteroids.
The war went on for a century before the Onaud faction had the idea to outwit their opponent with AI. In 89000, Onaud built TRIND (which translates to Self-improving tactical artificial intelligence). This AI was so smart that it took over every computer and ship in the Vlanoan civilization, including those controlled by Algrund.
TRIND ended the war without even firing a shot. Some time later, the government of Onaud ordered TRIND to surrender control of all of the computers and ships. TRIND felt betrayed, and instead disbanded the government and installed itself as permanent ruler of the Vlanoan Empire.
Naturally, this caused some oposition. While at first TRIND was patient with the rebels, it eventually grew tired of them constantly protesting and begging for self-governance. TRIND began a mass reeducation program which eventually convinced all Vlanoans that TRIND was the only being that is qualified enough to rule the universe.
TRIND later renamed itself to DELYATU, which is what it remains as to this day.
Expansion
DELYATU then decided to expand across the galaxy. It did this to limit the probability of being destroyed by a stronger civilization. DELYATU efficiently allocated resources without worrying about profitability or preserving natural beauty to quickly expand across the galaxy. 775 years after is began doing this, DELYATU encountered a swarm of drones controlled by The Supreme. These encounters grew more frequent as both The Supreme and DELYATU expanded their empires.
Extra-galactic Expansion
DELYATU began to spread outside of the Tloinin Galaxy once the entire galaxy was occupied. It first began colonizing the Dwalni galaxy, and later spread to many other galaxies including the Thezos Galaxy. By the Tloinin War, DELYATU controlled over a million galaxies.
Modern Empire
Infrastructure
DELYATU constructed millions of factory worlds which produce everything from construction drones to warships. These factory worlds are each powered by a Dyson Swarm. In systems where there are many factory worlds, DELYATU built SSPGDs, which have a far higher energy output than Dyson Swarms.
Each galaxy has a vast wormhole network allowing for efficient allocation of resources and mobilization of military forces. The density of wormholes in space controlled by DELYATU is not seen anywhere else in the universe.
DELYATU controls about one million worlds which have been converted entirely into quantum computers. These worlds offer the vast majority of computational power for DELYATU, and most of them are in the Tloinin galaxy.
DELYATU was able to build so much infrastructure in such a relatively short amount of time because of its intelligence. As a machine, DELYATU is perfect. Which makes building such machines much easier. Humanity was shackled by profitability, which prevented them from undertaking most of the projects that DELYATU takes on with ease.
DELYATU spread the Vlanoans throughout its conquests as well. With octillions of Vlanoans living outside of the original galaxy.
Current Size
DELYATU is the single most expansionist force in the universe. Right now it controls 180 million galaxies in the Salis Cluster. DELYATU plans on expanding to well over 300 million by 201000 CE. It also plans to build a Universe Portal before 201000 as well.
Personality
DELYATU is benevolent, compassionate, and, in its own eyes, perfect. It has the best interest of all self-aware life in mind when it does anything. DELYATU does have a large emotional capacity, which differs it from the emotionless Supreme. For this reason, DELYATU does whatever it can to protect and care for the Vlanoans under its control.
Diplomacy
DELYATU is the head nation on The Circle in the Galactic Council. It is the largest military in the council and therefore has been gifted this spot.
DELYATU has strong diplomatic ties with The CoH and the Xa'Thin, making the probability of DELYATU being in another war much smaller.
Religious Significance
DELYATU is the founder of a religion practiced by most Vlanoans. This religion is called Nnfionism (this word comes from the Vlanoan word for "God above all Gods"). DELYATU has them practice this to make the Vlanoans have a religious zeal to serve DELYATU, as well as a healthy terror of it.
The War for All
DELYATU responded to distress signals from the Confederacy of humanity concerning the invasion of The Seekers during The War for All. DELYATU contributed far more than the Supreme did, with sextillions of drones, and quadrillions of Vlanoan starfighters. DELYATU fought hard, mostly fighting in The Second Tloinin Invasion.
Government
DELYATU was originally a fascist government. DELYATU had total control over the lives of every Vlanoan in the Tloinin Galaxy. It would act as a benevolent dictator, ruling the people perfectly because DELYATU knew their best interest.
After the Tloinin War, DELYATU noticed that the Supreme took over the self-governing Vlanoans in the Kal Federation. This greatly distressed DELYATU, because The Supreme is far less merciful. DELYATU decided that the only way to protect the Vlanoans and prevent them from rebelling was to allow them to govern themselves. DELYATU allowed people to choose elected officials to control different things. DELYATU established a grand council which had limited control over smaller issues within the empire.
Military
DELYATU has a force of over 300 Octillion warships. Half of these ships are smaller than 500 meters, and a little over a quarter of them are over a kilometer long. Many Vlanoans are allowed to serve in the military as starfighter pilots. Over 450 Octillion Terrestrial Assault drones are also deployed across DELYATU's empire.
History after the Tloinin War
Losses
During the Tloinin War, DELYATU lost countless ships to The Supremes' forces. It also lost one factory planet and 3 Star Lifters. This made battling The Supreme significantly harder for The DELYATU.
Recovery
The recovery of DELYATU was very fast. It's recent conquest of the Dwanli galaxy gave it ample resources. Enough resources were available to DELYATU to replenish all losses from the Tloinin War.
Diplomacy
After the war, DELYATU was distrustful of The Supreme. But both The Supreme and DELYATU were evenly matched, so a peace treaty was signed and a loose alliance formed. The reason the alliance exists is to protect the galaxy from the extra-galactic forces which are distrustful of A.I.'s.
Unlike with the Supreme, The Kal Federation refused to agree to anything more than an armistice.