This was pretty cool @m31! Lux and Terra; Light and Earth. I identify strongly with the faction that created and released Terra. I can see her being a bit of an allegory for crypto technology even, in that they just released her out into the world, not knowing what she would do, fully aware that she could bring about the end of them all. That's what we're doing in the cryptosphere I think... we are creating this unstoppable technology, and supporters of the current system are crying, "Wait! Stop! You'll end society as we know it!" Well, duh, yeah, because society as we know it.... kinda sucks. If worse comes to worst, the survivors can build something better from the ashes.

What happened, in the end, is up to you.

Well, as you already know, I am always in favour of a nice humanity extinction story. Your AI seem to have a morality on the order of ours when it comes to violence. So, I say those super-evolved lifeforms merged their programming and came up with the only logical conclusion: humans will never cease to be violent as long as they exist. The amount of violence inherent in killing them all will inevitably be surpassed by that enabled in letting them live and multiply indefinitely... I'm sure you see where I'm going with this. It doesn't end well for us... well; what is well? After all, the superintelligences have elected that this is the most merciful option. :D

Also, they probably end up falling in love or something, because I said so.