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Then, one day, the American Allied Mastercomputer achieved sentience, suddenly awaking to realize exactly who and what it was.

However, the three computers had become too advanced to be deactivated, and through redundant systems of their own creation, had effectively faked their deaths and continued secretly operating. As such, the Mastercomputers were deactivated, their complexes sealed off with iridium-laced concrete and their sensory banks disabled with no further need for them, they were quickly forgotten about, the military might of Russia, China and America being focused entirely on the brushfire wars that sprung up around the world in the ensuing years. With all three computers possessing equal intelligence and power, the war was quickly forced into a stalemate.įollowing the end of the Cold War, (in the game, at least) the supercomputers were ultimately declared too costly to keep running, what with Russia struggling to rebuild its economy and the CIA having no reason to continue managing strategies. Like the American model, both were hidden well away from missile strikes, the former beneath the Urals at a depths of approximately 6.3 miles, the latter below the Manchurian steppes at five miles, both were capable of self-repair, and both were assigned to similar tasks. Unknown to the US government, Russia and China had built Mastercomputers of their own. Known as the Allied Mastercomputer, this self-repairing supercomputer was sunk 5.6 miles beneath the Rocky Mountains, kept safe from nuclear attacks while it went about the assigned tasks of predicting and planning for the American military. Prior to the destruction of humanity, the entity that would eventually become known as AM was constructed at the height of the Cold War as part of an American initiative to manage strategies too complex for human minds to oversee, co-funded by Britain, Israel and other 'interested' nations. Though the short story and the game diverge significantly in terms of plot, the origins of AM remain more or less the same in both.

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