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== Rise To Power ==

As his fame grew, so too did Sargon's ambitions. His laboratories produced revolutionary advances in robotics, artificial intelligence, and weapons engineering decades ahead of their time. Governments and corporations competed for his expertise, but Sargon increasingly regarded political leaders as petty and shortsighted men fumbling with forces they barely understood.

Eventually he stopped merely criticizing world leadership and began planning to replace it.

Sargon's earliest schemes involved automated security systems, predictive computer networks, and robotic peacekeeping forces supposedly intended to eliminate human conflict permanently. Yet each plan invariably placed ultimate authority in Sargon's own hands. He saw no contradiction in this. To him, benevolent dictatorship by enlightened intellects was plainly superior to the chaos of democracy.

This brought him into repeated conflict with [[Crucible:The Sentries|the Sentries]], who quickly recognized that Sargon's calm rhetoric concealed profoundly authoritarian instincts.

Over time his plans escalated in scale and ambition. Entire robot armies emerged from hidden factories. Orbital defense systems appeared in secret. Artificial intelligences loyal only to Sargon infiltrated global information systems. At one point he attempted to create a worldwide predictive computer network that would effectively place all economic and military decisions under his supervision.

Sargon invariably failed.

But each defeat merely convinced him that humanity was resisting its own salvation.