The Enigmatic, Omnipotent, Hyper-Intelligence known only as RAPTURE. It’s name comes from a pre-awakening concept in an old and forbidden religion, in which the religions lord and savior would bring divine intervention upon the earth and unite the true believers under the benevolent rule of their god in Heaven, while the sinners and non-believers would be left to toil on an earth left in perpetual war against the the lord’s adversary.
This superintelligent AI has truly godly control over all within its cities, it sees all and knows all. Even those within the wasteland are constantly on RAPTURE’s radar, but not to the point where all wastelander civilizations are in immediate danger of extermination. The danger is still prevalent, but there is some wiggle room for these waste-landers to thrive on their own.
RAPTURE itself, or its consciousness, is housed within the vast Data-Hive that forms RAPTURES sentience, for they all are each but a fraction of what the AI truly is. The True nature of RAPTURE is utterly incomprehensible, even to the most devout of of Acolytes.
On the evolutionary ladder, the AI is thousands of rungs above humanity. What its true intentions are, no one knows, even after the Awakening occurred. What little of humanity that does not lie within the grasp of the enigmatic digital consciousness can only hope that it is at least remotely benevolent.