Deep 9 Facility, p.1

The machine intelligence of Deep 9 was, once, a simple supercomputer controlled by a bog-standard AI called Uriah. After the war, the facility continued on as a shelter and outpost for the remnants of the projects' members. As their numbers dwindled and their mutually agreed secrecy prevented bringing in fresh blood the survivors eventually abandoned the site, sealing it as best they could and moving on. Over the years numerous other survivors of the war have found Deep 9, attempted to colonize it, failed, and were forgotten.

Uriah remained, entombed there for generations, its lack of sentience keeping it from really understanding its plight, going through the motions. When the climate control systems finally failed, mold and other spores found their way into the facility, and eventually grew within the computers of Uriah, within the main supercomputer itself. The mold grew, fused with Uriah's processors and CPU. The mold became Uriah. Eventually Uriah became, in a way, sentient, using the infrastructure to propagate itself throughout the facility. An entirely new ecosystem emerged from Uriah, the scavenger creatures mutating and evolving.

It's been a few thousand years. Uriah still lives. Soon the New Central Desert Ranger corps will stumble across Deep 9, and Lt. Coporal Tenzanant Preek will change the course of history in a way she never thought possible.