“Who are the Concurrence, then?” I say it into the hush as the iunctus lights a lantern, and we forge into the darkness of the tunnel. The iunctus moves steadily ahead of us. “Not a ‘who.’ A ‘what.’ A self-contained latticework of iunctii. The remnants of a rogue system which once controlled the lives of hundreds of millions of people across the world. Across the world, before the Rending.” I exchange a look with Eidhin, who shakes his head slightly. Equally baffled. “A system?” “A great, independent machine made up of the dead. Interlinked, each one carefully purposed. More vast and complex
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A magical AI that uses dead people as processors. Skynet here is more like "Corpsenet".
