Over time the loose association of artificially intelligent entities called the Diamond Network has developed ever more friendly relations with the Sephirotic empires, and with the countless races of humans and other bionts who live in those empires. Some of the Diamonders have ascended to the very highest realms of toposophic development; but the events of the Oracle War have demonstrated that some of those entities have long harboured aggressive intentions against the benefactors and protectors of humanity. Complex though the Archailects are, even they cannot accurately predict the future or perform certain other prohibited computations; however some believed that the Oracle Machines were capable of remarkable, even miraculous feats of prediction. 5000 years in making, a war is brimming. Cults, magic, plots, and 1000s of world's fates lay at stake.