The Artifact

The Artifact - also known as the machine seed - was created by the ancient alien race known as The Architects. It caused all this BS. This was first discovered by humans in the early 22nd century in a exploration ship into deep space. The Artifact was brought aboard the ship for studying and reverse engineering to advance human technology. But as time passed things around the ship began to chance, computer programs began irrational behavior, strange groaning sounds coming from the ship itself and much more was to come. Some the crew started to notice strange bulges in the hull of the ship and small tentacles appeared from the ship itself. Even more so was the fact the corridors of the ship were becoming more and more cramped then standards. One day a lone supply ship was sent out to resupply the ship. When they came to it they signaled it to open the hanger to receive the shipment. No response. They continued to try and raise them. They looked over the ship, no physical damage could be found. The tried to manually override the cargo bay, but were booted out of the system. They radioed HQ and told them the situation. While they were doing that they were being watched and listening in on the message being played and learned from it. once the message was sent the crew were ordered back to base. But as they were something took hold of the ship as if something was grabbing the ship itself. Once that was over and done with they looked ahead and saw a giant eye and soon realize that it was the ship looking at them, studying them. No wonder the crew didn't respond to their calls. Then they came to another realization.. the crew didn't respond, because they were part of the ship. They started at the eye for god knows how long, until they were released from its' grip. They didn't wait to find out what it was doing all they know was to get the heck out of there and they did so, but not before the ship implanted the same "Awakening" code she had. This would set the stage for what was to come.