Zane is the first independently created AI program with a self renewing power source and a true capability to think and feel. Professor Henry Julien and his wife Melissa are his creators, and are more than proud to call him their own. Cyrus Borg asks if he may attempt to create a companion for him, as he is the first of his kind and may be lonely, thus his own AI: PIXAL, based on Julien's program, is born. Many years from the time of creation Borg has done much more experimentation with the code and now he wants Zane and Julien's help for a higher purpose; namely to try and shut down the widespread program known as the Overlord virus that he mistakenly created, but Zane is still fairly fresh off the press and needs to be taught much more before he can save anyone.