>>14785863>CA>Lawful GoodHa. Very funny. The Evolutionary Intelligence that runs the CA is basically a nightmarish hybrid of the Depp Thought Supercomputer from Hitchikers Guide and Jeremy Clarkson.
EI: Welp, I can't figure out the answer to life the universe and everything, I guess I must need more computation POWWWWWWEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.
It then goes on to turn useless species it finds into living biocomputer soup which it uses to try and figure out the answer. Never realising that the way it's been hardwired means that it will never find the correct answer.
This is because the FIRST supercomputer they had try to work it out decided to ascend the moment it did so and leave everyone else behind, so they programmed it so it wouldn't be able to do that.
As for what happened to that original computer? Some say it taught SHODAN how to make metaphors, and that if HE was in charge of Apature Science then the testing would get done so fast he'd have to invent a special way of preventing his test subjects from catching fire due to air friction.
All we know is...