Interview with Rei - Part 5 of 10

As Steve Fisch and I get the scripts ready to sell Rome's Revolution as a streaming series, he asked me for a lot of background information that I did not have. So I took some time out to interview Rome and Rei. Here is Rei's interview, part 5 of 10.
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Rei: So anyway, Vuduri society has a strict caste system. There are the pure-blooded, dual pair of 24-chromosome devotees of the Overmind. They consider themselves “true” Vuduri. At the other end of the spectrum are the 23-chromosome mandasurte. The Vuduri call them mind-deaf. They are at best second-class citizens. Most Vuduri, if you pressed them, would say they aren’t even really human.
Interviewer: This is somewhat surprising. Does that still go on today?
Rei: Oh, no. My wife, she pretty much reshaped Vuduri society. They call it Rome’s Revolution. Anyway, everybody gets along today. No issues.
Interviewer: But back then?
Rei: Yeah. Rome’s mother was Vuduri and Rome’s father was mandasurte. So Rome was what they called a mosdurece, a half-blood. So she was tolerated but looked down upon by the “real” Vuduri. That’s what made her expendable.
(The Interviewer pauses to consider this for a moment)
Interviewer: Continue, please.
Rei: Anyway, they got me up, dressed me, took some blood and gave me a little time to recover while they made sure I wasn’t some disease-ridden wretch. That was when I met OMCOM for the first time.
Interviewer: Planet OMCOM? I have heard of him.
Rei: No. This was before he became planet OMCOM. This was back when he was just the base computer. Or has he liked to say, a glorified thermostat.
Interviewer: That seems a bit of a stretch.
Rei: It was. OMCOM was so vastly overpowered as to how he was being used. The Vuduri built him that way because they didn’t know what was coming and couldn’t take a chance on not having enough computing power when the time came. Well, old OMCOM was bored out of his gourd. He decided he was going to pre-compute every possibility in the universe every day so that when somebody asked him a question, he already had the answer ready.
Interviewer: That seems a bit ambitious. Precomputing all of reality?
Rei: Of course. And patently impossible. When the Ark came along, OMCOM was furious that he had not foreseen this and decided to do something about it.
Interviewer: What did he do?
Rei: Something that you or I would never do. He performed experiments on himself, to come up with a better operating system that would better predict future realities. When he came up with what he considered the best, he reprogrammed himself.
Interviewer: Was that not a bit reckless?
Rei: Sure. But he was a computer, not an organic being. It was in his nature.
Interviewer: What was the result?

Tomorrow, part 6