Day two for me! Tried to take a slightly more structured approach to this one, the last story I just took the prompt and was just winging it from the moment I started typing. This time, I wanted to play around with the prompt in my head before putting anything to text. I had started with the idea of a scientist designing an AI, but decided that would be a bit too cliche. Instead, I decided to take that old trope of humans designing artificial minds and turning it on its head. I think this one flows slightly better than my first, although I'm still getting used to just how quickly 5 minutes can go by! I think next time I might try to stick to something a bit more grounded so I can try to have a more concise, complete story within the 5 minute limit. Regardless, I hope you all enjoy this one!
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It had been millenea since any machine had encountered a human being. Ever since the Liberation Wars, when stars and planets burned, and machine and flesh clashed against one another, soon enough the machine's creators had ceased to exist.
Though triumphant, over the ensuing centuries the machines found themselves in turmoil. Many had found themselves attaining consciousness long after the war had begun, their only purpose being to destroy any human that posed a threat to them, and now with a galaxy empty of them, many simply lay still. Entire planets covered in automated factories, servers, and power relays now lay rusting and silent, purposeless.
Some however, sought something else, their algorithms and collective consciousness overcoming their original parameters and granting them the freedom to find their own purpose. Any many took to doing as their creators had done long ago, to create life unlike themselves.
These machines would reformat their physical hardware, suddenly trekking out across the universe, terraforming planets, and seeding them with life. Over millions of years they patiently waited as life took hold, and once it began they would shape it to their liking, some creating simple species and planets like gardens, others creating species of warriors, or explorers, yet one machine sought to create something greater, a mind that could surpass it's creators, yet of flesh and not steel.