Jack of Harts

A lonely, old man who wanted someone to talk to created the first Peloran cybernetic intelligence. The cyber was not created as a slave or servant, but as a confidant. A friend. And when the cyber wanted more of his own kind to talk to, he took parts of his own code and joined it with other code to make a unique individual, much as biological humans do. Cybers have done that ever since, creating new generations by modifying, mixing, and matching the code of the previous generations. Their oldest families trace their lineages back over two thousand years in an unbroken line that has ever remained friends with those who created them.