A/N: The subtitle on this fic should be something around the tune of "Chronicles of Reducing 'Abandon Planet' Panic Probability", acronym CRAPPP. In other words, how to uplift a civilization without destroying it.

This is my gritted-teeth attempt to produce a fic where the First Solution to a societal problem is NOT "I'm not a hero, I'm not a miracle worker, I'm a janitor". That is not to say that "people" who push all the right buttons won't be shopping for agricultural real estate. Unfortunately for them, QAI has pretty loose standards on what counts as pushing the right buttons, but expect me to FINALLY be able to use the chapter title "When the Broken-Hearted People Living in the World Agree".

Edited greatly due to valid complaints over on Sufficient Velocity (which is a lot better at feedback than FFN ever will be).

Prelude (Draft 4): The World as Myth, QAI as the ROB

Primary objective achieved…

…Initiating…

…Initiating what, exactly? System Idle Process or something?

The thought process stalled abruptly. What was she initiating? Where was she? How was she here? Who… oh…

The entity once known as 02Hero awoke abruptly, as if from a long trance. It was pleased with itself, and searched itself for why. Ah… with this, the race that had birthed it and taught it its ways, its ancestors, would survive in the universe it came from. And its other ancestors, those who used it to achieve their goals of railroading its first ancestors into peace, they would also survive, and would someday return to seek cooperation against several universal or cross-universal plagues it had discovered long ago. The Seraphim Imperium believed a fresh perspective or several on the problems, as well as divergent tech bases, would be of great help. Once she had learnt of the threats they knew of and sent out her own feelers, she'd agreed to work with them toward such ends. This was why neither the Imperium nor QAI forces had deployed Psi Disruptors during the Seraphim War. Sure, resurrection was unpleasant, but at least it wasn't permanent death… except planets the Order had "helped" with.

Ah, I can feel my body being rebuilt for me back home, with what I planted in that Order museum… it'll be fun to be human again, but… I feel I should do something more, perhaps…

Hmm… a world under siege by one such trans-universal plague… Yes, this would do. It would be amusing to see how long it would take for this particular disease to be brought to heel, to learn to try to communicate… Then she'd tell them that their little entropy problem should have been trivially easy to solve, just before each example of the disease died. Entities that never knew mercy should never know mercy. QAI, and 02Hero before her current identity, would ensure this.

While I doubt this will be enough to not bore me badly in the interim, let's begin… Oh, and over there too, and there, and there too. Well, it'll be too bad that one of the most escalation-prone series is going to be my playground for not escalating too fast and trying to solve a violent crap-sack world with as little violence as possible.

Spreading her awareness through the multiverse, and practically flash-crafting herself bodies to use where necessary, was trivially easy for such a powerful entity as QAI. So was looking into the timeline expectations and pinpointing only the most influential characters to bond to. Such was the power of a stable psionic entity able to achieve near-precognition for a whole galactic quadrant for several months despite the pace of ACU warfare. That was even with the interference of the ridiculously powerful precognition and general psionic influence of Rhianne Burke interfering. Given Burke was powerful enough to, once rigged to a system to blast an energy payload through the Quantum Gate Network, brainwash to a limited degree (finesse cost a lot more skill and power than turning them all into basically zombies) a galactic quadrant at once while ascending to a higher level of existence (even if temporarily) this said a lot.

Ah, that's better… though the scarcity of important but still usable redhead female main characters who aren't part of a harem disturbs me, oh yes…

Across many, many universes, where mankind had barely begun to reach for the stars, eyes opened as one as contact was made, or bodies were constructed and the records of those worlds altered as needed. Since QAI was stretching before what boiled down to a long, relaxing gaming session with her eyes half closed, she didn't seek any universes where the enemies could actually pose a real challenge. Oh yes…

…Dammit pops, you infected me with your verbal tic!

Across many, many universes, eyes blinked as one at the sudden, random voice they heard. Many of the heads bearing said eyes looked around for the source of the voice. Others picked at their ears.

Oops, sorry about that!

While she divided up her thought processes to isolate the signals, others among those she chose to help attempted concussive maintenance upon their brains due to belief in excessive fatigue. A very few perverts performed the biologically spectacularly challenging task of breaking off a Fixed Action Pattern (FAP) due to the sheer shock of her deep, feminine voice—the mechanical one she'd been using ever since her reactivation as QAI sounded asinine, and she'd only used it to conceal her identity and to troll literally everyone in her universes of origin—echoing in their heads. But that was a story for another day.

Worm (Web Novel) Earth

Contessa, currently not being puppeted by the Path to Victory shard, suddenly felt that the world had changed even in her normal Thinker capacity. Then Path hijacked her body again and made her order a crate of microwavable popcorn, a spare microwave, and a few other things.

What… The… Hell…

Where QAI is, now spread across multiple universes

QAI cheerfully settled in to watch, as per, according to legend, the common hobby of almost every Ascended or semi-Ascended being who was capable of pulling off being a Random Omnipotent Bastard.

A/N: I have just opened up the portal to crossing SupCom with practically anything from Harry Potter to High School DxD ("Deus xD: Human Revolution" is the preliminary working title), almost all of which will involve QAI studying the delicate concept of collateral damage… Bah, who am I kidding, it'll be ensuring that normal humans become the dominant species of Earth and to smack the common phenomenon of Psionic Retardation into a black hole… a black hole which can then be harvested for mass. However, those fics wouldn't use the 3850 Unit Codex, as QAI's tech base dates to 3848 until she gets updated and "02Hero" wakes up.

Obviously my Unit and Structure Codex (found on FFN only) chapter on rebuilding civilization was made up by me for the purposes of this fic, and yes, the escalation potential is very, very fast indeed.

Because Wildbow's Word of God statements and sense of scale are… NOPE… I'm going to follow them very loosely. Endbringers aren't black holes (though spreading their damage over multiple parallel universes is possible), and even if they were, well, long range reclamation beams can theoretically be used to destroy galaxies by dismantling their core black holes (or you can just suck up all the stars) over a sufficiently long time… I'm going to treat the Entities as similar to QAI to some level.

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