The Rains of Oshanta

Also known as "The Rains", the Rains of Oshanta was the name given to the events during which the Askanj destroyed the Oshan AI and nearly exterminated the Oshan species. The incident led to the Principality becoming far more cautious about Artificial Intelligence.

Background
The Oshan AI put nearly the entirety of the Oshan species into a medically induced coma in order to keep them "happy", as its programming had directed. A survey of the population led to the discovery that several colony ships containing Oshans had been launched many years before the AI had been made. The Oshan AI attempted to recover the missing Oshans, who fled when they realized what was chasing them and managed to come into contact with the Askanj Principality, who rescued them. The Oshan AI believed that the Oshans in question were being held in duress and proclaimed its desire to make them happy and free them from the Askanj. Additionally, it also declared it would make all other life forms happy as well, claiming that the Oshans who created it would have wanted the AI to do so.

Sequence of Events
After rescuing the Oshans from the Oshan AI, Noble Fleet Lord Avauntum Thren of the Argosy debated for days with his senior staff and the rescued Oshans. He also communicated his intentions of protecting the Oshans on board his ship to the Oshan AI. When he returned seven months later, the Fleet Lord discovered that the AI had built an interplanetary industry, and knew that it might soon develop transition technology and spread to other star systems and attempt to make all species "happy". He ordered his entire task force to bombard the planet and its moon for days, until there was nothing left. Seven hundred billion Oshans would die during the Rains.

Repurcussions
The events at Oshanta led to the Askanj Principality banning research into AI and becoming far more afraid of the technology, much as the Compact had been doing for two thousand years. It also led, indirectly, to the events at the Betrosha Nebula where an angered Nemesis shattered a moon after the Askanj made an ill-fated attempt to disable Red One and study her ship-self's technology